Q: In turning the mind inwards, are we not still employing the mind?

A: Of course we are employing the mind. It is well known and admitted that only with the help of the mind can the mind be killed.

But instead of setting about saying there is a mind, and I want to kill it, you begin to seek the source of the mind, and you find the mind does not exist at all. The mind, turned outwards, results in thoughts and objects. Turned inwards, it becomes itself the Self.

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