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practice of experience. We do not know it. The name of the conscious is experience. Experience is an ocean of placid water. Within it there are no thoughts. Thoughts stirs the waters and makes it passionate and full of ripples. It does not let the ocean remain peaceful.
A man was meditating. He told his disciple, “I want to drink water. Get water from the river." The disciple returned empty handed. On being asked the reason he replied, "The water has become muddy because just now a few bullock carts passed through the river." He waited for some time and went to fill water three times after that but each time he found the water still muddy. The mud had not yet settled down. The disciple went the fourth time and returned with clean water. The teacher asked, "Did you understand anything or not?" The disciple replied, "What was there that was worth understanding? The bullock carts stirred the waters and so they became muddy. As soon as the mud settled, the water was clean again. There does not seem to be any great secret embedded in this happening."
To this the teacher answered, "This is exactly what has to be understood. When the bullock carts of our
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