Vijnana Bhairava Tantra · Dharana 71 · Verse 94
I am not this, I am not that
Gently set down each claim to be something: not the thought, not the mood, not the biography. Do not replace them with a better identity. What remains when the claims go quiet is what this practice is for.
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Contemplate this: “Within me there is no mind, no intellect, no sense of ego.” Free of these constructions, one is freed from thought itself.