&gt;Begin with numbing the bodily senses, then proceed to blind the mind&#x27;s eye, and then stifle the voice of your thoughts. These won&#x27;t actually go away, of course, but you will realize without them that your experience is nothing more than the sum of these parts. There is no &#x27;disembodied&#x27; consciousness. You are a stream of sensations.<p>If these won&#x27;t actually go away, how will you realize something without them?