Seek the root I

[Guest guest]

M.: How do you meditate?

D.: I begin to ask myself “Who am I?â€, eliminate body as not ‘I’, the

breath as not ‘I’, the mind as not ‘I’ and I am not able to proceed

further.

M.: Well, that is so far as the intellect goes. Your process is only

intellectual. Indeed, all the scriptures mention the process only to

guide the seeker to know the Truth. The Truth cannot be directly

pointed out. Hence this intellectual process.

You see, the one who eliminates all the not I cannot eliminate the

‘I’. To say ‘I am not this’ or ‘I am that’ there must be the ‘I’. This

‘I’ is only the ego or the ‘I-thought’. After the rising up of this

‘I-thought’, all other thoughts arise. The ‘I-thought’ is therefore

the root-thought. If the root is pulled out all others are at the same

time uprooted. Therefore seek the root ‘I’, question yourself “Who

am I?â€; find out its source. Then all these will vanish and the pure

Self will remain ever.

 

From Talk 197

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