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Much of the meditation performed by religious ascetics and monks is a form of self-hypnosis, of imaginings about their religious concepts, of thinkings and speculations about their religious beliefs. This is not the same as true meditation, which seeks to stop thinking and to penetrate to the still centre of Reality.

-- Notebooks Category 4: Elementary Meditation > Chapter 1 : Preparatory > # 130