From: oldernow@dev.null   
      
   From https://anantasatsang.org/book/are-you-aware-now/ :   
      
   > The feeling that the ‘person’ idea still has power   
   > over me   
   >   
   > As we get deeper in this marinating, deeper into attending   
   > satsang and self inquiry, we will see that, very subtly,   
   > it is still our own lingering/habitual attention and   
   > belief that gives the idea of personhood power over us.   
   > Certainly, something that is imaginary cannot have power   
   > of its own. It only gets power from our own attention   
   > and belief.   
   >   
   > When Consciousness itself gives it this belief and   
   > attention, it seems to become real. But the fact is you   
   > will suffer as a result of this belief that ‘I am this   
   > person’ and this suffering is actually pure grace which   
   > asks us to question this identity which we have taken for   
   > ourselves, and points us back to our true Self. It cannot   
   > be that something comes and takes you away without your   
   > belief and attention. The easiest and quickest way to   
   > stop suffering is to just let go of every thought that   
   > comes. Every thought that comes can be allowed to come   
   > and go.   
   >   
   > Letting go of a thought does not mean we have to try and   
   > stop thoughts from coming; it does not mean we have to get   
   > into some sort of a fight with the mind; because to get   
   > into a fight with the mind would also give it reality. Let   
   > go just means to not engage. To let thoughts come and   
   > go. As a very wise Zen master said ‘Let thoughts come   
   > and let them go, never serve them tea’. Then, suffering   
   > will become very rare and will happen only momentarily. It   
   > will have no power whatsoever over you.   
      
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