Don't Think

To think, “I will not think” –
This, too, is something in one’s thoughts.
Simply do not think
About not thinking at all.

An old poem as quoted in…. The Unfettered Mind – Takuan Soho

NOTES: This is actually how I wanted to start this post………
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…… If I am thinking, I can not be Not thinking.

Nothing like disjointed thoughts eh?! It is hard for me to focus today, but that is absence of thought, is it not?

EDITED: 7-11-09 – This is just one more lesson of absence of thought. The more we think about not thinking the further this takes us away from not thinking. The practice is to just not think, to be in the void, to operate in the space and energy fields in the space where there is nothingness. Here we are truly in awareness and we are truly present to listen and help others. In the void we can relax, live and heal, it is too bad modern society and our conditioned conscious mind try to keep us from tapping into this magical field of nothingness where everything is possible and great fields of positive healthy energy can be gulped in at will. Distractions, afflictions, stopping of the mind on thoughts and contemplations are all distractions of the conscious mind to steer us away from achieving enlightenment. Nature does not have a conscious mind only a free roaming subconscious natural mind, free from afflictions and distracting contemplations, free to receive 100% of the things that happen without contemplation on why is the grass green or the sky blue, it just is and it is beautiful. We can become our own worst enemies as we self absorb in our own thoughts and feelings because if we are focusing within we will not perceive, receive the things that are without (outside) of us. Just like blinders on a horse an effect that causes tunnel vision as well as tunnel thoughtness (I just made that word up). Its not a matter of seeing the forest through the trees, it is a matter of just seeing all of the forest.

Peace be with you,
GhostDog