strings: Perhaps, in coming to this point, we have used the conscious mind; we have followed the argument, we have opposed or accepted it, we have seen it . clearly or dimly, To go further and experience more deeply requires a mind that is quiet and alert to find out, does it not? It is no longer pursuing ideas •because, if you pursue an idea, there is the thinker following what is being said and so you immediately create dua!ity. If you want to go further into this matter of fundamental change, is it not necessary for the active mind to be quiet? Surely it is only when the mind is quiet that it can understand the enormous diffculty, the complex implications of the thinker and the thought as two separate