Have you ever tried to stop thinking? I have become that the two biggest problems I had to contend with my development were; watching too many depressing romantic comedies starring John Cusack, and thinking entirely too much.
Now, it is easy to avoid John Cusack movies. Just don't watch them. That's easy enough. But the second problem, now that's where things get tricky. Have you ever tried to stop thinking? I don't mean sit and take a break. I don't mean focusing on something. I mean total and utter absence of thought? I dunno about you, but I agree with the Taoist that this sounds like the way to bliss. After all, what gets in the way of ones happiness more than ones' own mind?
However, actually ceasing thought is so much harder than you can ever imagine. You can try it right now. Close your eyes, turn off your mind and just exist. But there is a problem, the less you try to think the more shit pops into your head. I try it several times a day and it actually seems to be getting harder. As soon as I close my eyes I have to think of something in order to think of nothing so I focus on a color. But then my mind makes a correlation with that color and an emotion, or the weather, or whatever weird shit happens to be stuck in my brain. I tried thinking of a number, suddenly masses of binary coding are winging their way through my brain.
Does anyone think that total non-action and non-thought are even possible?
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The next time you try it focus directly on your breathing be in a calm environment. I find this is the closest I can get to it. Some thoughts pop up but when they do I ignore them and just keep focusing on breathing.
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