How to Make Delusive Thoughts Disappear

All thoughts, ideas, and notions arise from ignorance (avidyā), yet ignorance has no place of coming and no place of going—it is a illusory dharma. Since deluded thoughts, ideas, and notions come from ignorance that has no source, there is no need to take them seriously. See through them, see them clearly, do not follow the arising and ceasing of deluded thoughts, and remain in suchness, immovable. Gradually these ignorant thoughts will disappear on their own, and the mind will become pure and tranquil. Then, when you contemplate the object of meditation, it will be luminously clear, and ignorance will grow thin. Human ideas and notions come and go; even if you want to keep them, you cannot hold onto them—they are always shifting and changing, never fixed. See through them, pay them no heed, do not move along with them, and the mind will naturally be cool and refreshed. It is the same with observing the breath: objectively watch the breath and observe the breath, without stirring up emotions, without actively adding in notions, without matching things up against theories—just blankly and dully watching, observing from outside the game. Might you not, gradually, be able to see through this little matter of the physical body? And then, gradually, see through this little matter of the five aggregates (pañcaskandha)? It is just this little matter—nothing major. It only feels big because of grasping.