DON’T WORRY ABOUT YOUR THOUGHTS. GET RID OF THE IMAGINARY WALL BETWEEN MIND & CONSCIOUSNESS. DO NOT REACT TO YOUR THOUGHTS.
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“As we become deeply involved in Advaita, non-duality, we find that all the teachings of Advaita from the beginning of time tell us all that we have to do is make the mind quiescent, to make the mind calm, peaceful, relaxed, to quiet the mind and then you’ll be self-realized.

In Buddhism they say to kill the mind. In Hinduism they say to control the mind. In all the great religions of the world they always go back to the mind because they realize that’s where all the problems come from, where all the errors come from, this is where the misconceptions come from, the mind. In other words, the mind has got to go!

But trying to kill the mind is really a metaphor. All the ways of getting rid of the mind are a metaphor. You don’t really want to get rid of the mind because just by thinking of this the mind becomes stronger and stronger and stronger. You know yourself, anytime you try to quiet the mind it becomes louder and louder. Whenever you try to remove thoughts from the mind, the thoughts become stronger and stronger.

So what is a way to do this? Look at it like this. There’s a wall, an imaginary wall between consciousness and the mind and the thoughts. The thoughts and the mind are synonymous. As you try to get rid of the thoughts, you come up against a wall, you come to a dead end. Therefore, the real way to lose the mind is to get rid of the wall, not the thoughts.

The so-called invisible wall that separates consciousness from the thoughts. And you do this by not trying to remove any thoughts or change any thoughts or kill any thoughts. You merely ‘remove the wall’ and the thoughts will take care of themselves, or move past the wall to consciousness. And then consciousness will prevail, which is your real Self.

You do this by becoming very calm, very peaceful, very relaxed and allow the thoughts to do what they will. Don’t interfere with them, just let them do what they will. If they wish to be angry with you, let them be angry. If your thoughts wish to tell you things about people, let them tell you things about people. Do not try to change your thoughts. Merely, do not react to them! That’s what you’ve got to do. Do not react to your thoughts. Never react to the thoughts!”

~ Robert Adams (20th century American Advaita mystic)