Acharya Prashant explains that the only effective method is observing the daily, ordinary actions of the mind as an impartial observer. He states that there is no other method that is going to work because all other methods are isolations. They work only on a part and time of life, not on total life. The method either does something to life or excludes life, for instance, by blocking out two hours for the method. The only method that is all-encompassing is life itself. One must observe life totally as it is happening and not do anything to it, because if you do something to life, you have changed it. Observation alone does not change or interfere with life, whereas all other methods will interfere with and change that which you are going to observe, and hence your observation will be corrupted. The speaker gives an example: if you want to observe your heart and you tear open the body to reach it, in the process, you kill the body. You would have changed the very thing that you wanted to observe. This is the problem with methods; every method is an interference. If you seclude time for a method, you have already changed your life, so what are you observing? The only real method is one that touches life very gently and has no intention of changing it. This intentless observation is the only method. Your ordinary life is the only way; all other ways are extraordinary because they try to do something. Observation alone does not try to do something. The speaker quotes a dialogue where Nansen replied to Joshu, "The more you pursue, the more does it slip away." This means that the act of grasping the ordinary mind changes it, making it no longer ordinary. The chasing itself has robbed it of its ordinariness. When the observer is a motivated observer, the observation changes the observed. For example, if you are looking at a person with eyes of expectation, demand, or lust, your lustful observation will change them. But if you look at them just like a lover, offering no threat and demanding nothing, content in just observing, the observed one will feel no need to change. Such is life. If you demand something from it, it hides away. If you just look at it, admiring and rejoicing in it, you come to see its real face. Don't pursue, and it comes to you. Don't chase, and it is yours.