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To seek mental blankness as a direct objective is to mistake an effect for a cause. It is true that some of the inferior yogis do so, trying by forcible means like suppression of the breath to put all thoughts out of the mind. But this is not advocated by philosophy.

-- Notebooks Category 4: Elementary Meditation > Chapter 3 : Fundamentals > # 67