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Originally Posted by Still_Waters
You wrote that "I'm going to do two and a half hours walking meditation now and I'm not going to think about anything".
Most people are immersed in thoughts and cannot even imagine a thought-free state. What worked best for you in becoming established in a thought-free state?
(Zen koans and Zen practices constitute just one path to discovering the thought-free state.)
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I usually have headphones on studying my mandarin chinese lessons
once I learn the content - I just go back over it repeatedly -
it does not require thought because I'm not learning - I already know the lesson --
the only time I'm required to think is when I'm learning new content and that takes a tremendous amount of my brain -
- I'm not really a fan of learning but I am a fan of knowing -
I have been studying mandarin for 12 years - I know a lot of content that I just go back over repeatedly
I don't have any new content to learn right now - so no thought is required
I will get some more years worth of content to study when I have a stable place to live
- I have been doing the two and a half hours a day walking meditation since august of 2016 - so it's just part of me and it's just something I do without thinking -
- yesterday I actually made an effort to be mindful of breathing - though I'm not so sure that that's necessary
right now I'm supposed to be thinking about an important situation - so I'm not doing mandarin lessons right this moment
but I am just blank without the Mandarin -- even though I'm supposed to be thinking about some important decision - there is nothing - no thought at all -
no thoughts even come up every now and then - I am just walking
same with mandarin -- I am just walking and not thinking - the mandarin comes to me naturally without thinking about anything at all
my mind just speaks mandarin without thought
I even hear voices in Chinese
maybe the fact that I can't deal with life or making decisions is the reason my mind shuts out thought
It's really all too much for me to deal with - just let me be agoraphobic - and walk - and do my mandarin lessons
I don't want to think about anything - it makes my brain hurt -- I am just blocking it all out because it disturbs the peace
I have no need for it - and I don't want to have a need for it - I just want peace and quiet
I walk inside the house - there is nothing to distract me
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