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knowledge. Knowledge is not a modification of an object. Nor is the nature of knowledge the object to be known. The two are different. One is that which is to be studied and the other is knowledge itself. But our doubts have merged knowledge and the object of study. Knowledge takes the form in which the object appears.
The rule of meditational practice is to change this state. To understand the respective places of the object of study and of knowledge. To let knowledge remain in the mode of knowledge and the object in the mode of the object. To not let them touch each other. And that is all the job of meditation. Only so much of transformation is required so as to maintain the role of knowledge as knowledge and the object of study as the object of study, to keep event as an event and the knower as a knower. It is not necessary to do anything more than this. Once this realization occurs then it is not necessary to meditate for two hours. When it has happened that you are able to know an event and not experience it, then meditation brings results automatically. Then whatever you do, you are meditating, walking, eating, sleeping or speaking. There is no need for silence. Silence is
Acharya Mahaprajna
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