What Does "Brain Supplementation" Mean?

Whatever is imagined through rich imagination, rather than concluded through practice, is called "mental fabrication." Mental fabrication is essentially a misunderstanding—nothing of the sort actually exists. Just like the fruit-attainment and enlightenment of many people: these are fabricated in the mind, not cultivated into being; they are the result of a rich imagination.

Only when the conscious mind is rendered half-paralyzed one day does one's practice get on track and begin to show some promise. A clever conscious mind is precisely the condition that obstructs the Path; only when a person is not so clever does the Path easily appear. Cultivating the Path is something fools do; clever people do not cultivate the Path—they merely think about it. A Path that is thought up is like a dream, an illusion, a bubble, a shadow—utterly useless. Thinking about the Path is easy; cultivating the Path is hard. That is why most people take shortcuts, using the method of thinking rather than the method of cultivation.