It Is Not Possible, To Run Harder, To Stop!

Acharya Prashant
4 min readSep 22, 2019

The question is, how to attain stillness of the mind?

‘Stilling the mind’, or ‘Stopping the mind’, are very popular and lucrative catchphrases. There is a small problem. The problem is — for the mind, everything is a verb. Everything is a verb. Everything denotes action. So when the mind says, “Stop,” even that means — ‘do’ the act of stopping.