Thinking was taught to us, but not how to suspend it afterwards.

[After the Rain]

I don’t think this primordial state of “not thinking” is something that pertains education. There are too many things to learn in school, adding even more things to learn is counter productive. Besides, it’s not something that can really be taught in a classroom.

I am sure there is a specific term for this state of mental clarity in Buddhist literature, but regardless of whether you approach this “not thinking” state in a religious or in an intellectual way, solitude is the ideal condition to start learning “non thought”. You can’t properly meditate in a room full of people or in a crowded environment, you need to be alone with yourself.

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The really bad, bad thing about education, is that it forces upon us the unnatural act of thinking.
Remember how painful that initially was? It hurt!
Until then, all was observation, experimentation, intuition. All was now!
And suddenly now was nowhere to be found, and our memory buffers were filled with thoughts we had to remember.

We were never taught how to return to no-thought.

This is my area of expertise. The realm of no-thought. Not the blank you might imagine, but peace and clarity, instead.
Awareness and readiness to engage with whatever the moment brings, without the thought, that changes it from what it is, into what it isn’t.

Until we can return to this primal condition, at will, we’re all just left whistling Dixie.

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