Thanissaro Bhikkhu

Repeatedly.

someone else, this or that.

The third step.

or murky, calm, or unsettled.

The mind will be empty, neutral and still.

neither pleased nor displeased.

When you see this truth clearly, the mind will be empty, not holding onto anything.

All that remains is a pure condition of Dharma, of truth.

They will know this without having to ask or to take it on faith from anyone.

For the Dharma is Pachatang.

When you sit and meditate, even if you don't gain any intuitive insights, make sure at least that you know this much.

When a thought of this sort comes passing in, simply let it go passing on.

When we say that the mind goes here or there, it's not really the mind that goes.

The movement of the body is what causes the shadow to move.

Shadows are hard to catch, hard to shake off, hard to set still.

The awareness that forms the present, that's the true mind.

As for the mind, the awareness that doesn't act in any way, coming or going, forward or back, it's quiet and unperturbed.

And when the mind is thus its normal, even, undistracted self, when it doesn't have any shadows, we can rest peacefully.

Say your shadow is black.

You can scrub it with soap till your dying day.