Systems imply repetition, practice, following a method. If you follow a method, a system, a practice, it becomes a routine. And when the mind becomes a mechanical thing, then you have conflict, then there is an escape through sex, or through other forms of activity. Therefore, at all costs, avoid any system of meditation, because a mechanical mind can never find out what truth is. The mechanical mind can become very disciplined and orderly, but that orderliness is in contradiction to the order we were talking about. In the orderliness of repetition, there is contradiction between what you are and what you should be, between the ideal, the perfect, and all the rest. There is contradiction in that, and where there is contradiction there is distortion, and therefore a tortured mind. And a tortured mind can never find out anything. So don’t belong to any system; don’t follow any guru.

From Inward Revolution

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