strings: When the mind is no longer the centre, as the thinker made up of words, of past experiences—which are all memories, labels, st&ed up and put in categories, in pigeonholes— when it is not doing any of those things, then, obviously the mind is quiet. It is no longer bound, it has no longer a centre as the me—my house, my achievement, my work— which are still words, giving impetus to feeling and thereby strengthening memory. When none of these things is happening, the mind is very quiet. That state is not negation. On the contrary, to come to that point, you have to go through all this, which is an enormous undertaking; it is not merely learning a few sets of words and repeating them like a school-boy—not to name', 'not to name'. To follow through all its implications, to experience it, to see how the mind works and thereby come to that point when you are no longer naming, which means that there is no longer a centre apart from thought—surely this whole process is real meditation.