Is there completely still mind?

Is there a mind without activity?

Is there a mind that is completely still?

If you ask yourself this question,

And you do not rely on, you do not consider, any idea that you heard in the past from someone else,

Neither any idea that comes purely from your imagination,

When you really look, and try to see,

If there’s even the possibility for the mind not to be active,

You can see, then, that the very questioning,

And the very movement towards an answer,

Is action.

Is activity.

Therefore, it cannot lead to clarity, regarding an inactive, immovable, totally quiet -

State.

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You may then continue and inquire, what is the fact that you meet when you ask such question?

You may see that you don’t know.

And that is the fact!

When the mind, which is: You, that asks the question,

Really sees that it doesn’t know,

It stops moving.

And the question itself,

The question itself, not the answer to it,

Is, then, quiet.

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It has nothing to do with the state of the mind,

It has nothing to do with the external noise.

The capacity to ask, in not knowing,

Has no trace of noise.