strings: You will inevitably ask, "How can the mind be made still ?" That is the immediate response, is it not? You say, "My mind is agitated and how can I keep it quiet ?" Can any system make the mind quiet ? Can a formula, a discipline, make the mind still ? It can; but when the mind is made still, is that quietness, is that stillness? Or is the mind only enclosed within an idea, within a formula, within a phrase ? Such a mind is a dead mind, is it not? That is why most people who try to be spiritual, so-called spiritual, are dead— because they have trained their minds to be quiet, they have enclosed themselves within a formula for being quiet. Obviously, such a mind is never quiet; it is only suppressed, held down.