How to Make Delusive Thoughts Disappear

All thoughts, ideas, and concepts arise from ignorance (avidyā), yet ignorance has no place of origin and no destination—it is a illusory dharma. Since deluded thoughts, ideas, and concepts 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, remain suchness is immovable (tathatā-acalita), and gradually these ignorant thoughts will disappear on their own, and the mind will become pure and tranquil. Then, when you contemplate the object (ālambana), it will be luminously clear, and ignorance will grow thinner. Human ideas and concepts come and go; even if you want to keep them, you cannot hold onto them—they keep changing and cannot be fixed in place. See through them, pay them no heed, do not move along with them, and the mind will naturally be cool and refreshed. Contemplating the breath is the same: objectively watch the breath and observe the breath, without stirring up emotions, without actively adding in concepts, without matching things up against theories—just blankly and dully watching, observing from outside the game. Might you, little by little, be able to see through this matter of the material body? And then gradually see through this matter of the five aggregates (pañca-skandha)? It is just this small matter—nothing major. It only feels like a big deal because of grasping.