If you are inquiring into what meditation is, then the formulas, the repetitions, the mantras, the various things that you do must be put aside, and the mind must be entirely quiet. Either what you are doing now is meditation, or it is not. If it is meditation, there is no problem. But to find out if what you are doing is meditation, you must be free to look at it, to question it; you cannot merely accept it. To inquire into what meditation is, surely that freedom is the first necessity. So, can you be free from all your practices, from all your disciplines, from all your various conclusions and compulsions? And if you are freeing yourself from those things because you are inquiring into what meditation is, that very inquiry is meditation.

From Collected Works, Vol. 8

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