Yeah its interesting... maybe its like a balance. Maybe the ideal is the middle way where you think as a tool when needed, but if not needed to let it drop.
Finding that balance is the key then, and perhaps takes practice and learning over time.
Also, even when thinking, you're also always in the eternal Now... so if one can cultivate a broad enough perspective, perhaps no matter what thinking is happening one can realize the depths behind and beyond the thinking.
Well said brother, thank you, wise words. Yeah, there's some kind of skill that can be cultivated here—of knowing when 'thinking' is helpful and when it's not. When it's not helpful, it feels to me kinda like 'neurotic mind-looping' that becomes obsessive, knotted, unresolvable. When it is helpful, it feels more like 'downloading' a blueprint or watching a puzzle self-assemble.
And yeah, there's always the option available to notice whatever (thought-like) textures are appearing as pure omnipresent timeless radiance.
Yeah its interesting... maybe its like a balance. Maybe the ideal is the middle way where you think as a tool when needed, but if not needed to let it drop.
Finding that balance is the key then, and perhaps takes practice and learning over time.
Also, even when thinking, you're also always in the eternal Now... so if one can cultivate a broad enough perspective, perhaps no matter what thinking is happening one can realize the depths behind and beyond the thinking.
Well said brother, thank you, wise words. Yeah, there's some kind of skill that can be cultivated here—of knowing when 'thinking' is helpful and when it's not. When it's not helpful, it feels to me kinda like 'neurotic mind-looping' that becomes obsessive, knotted, unresolvable. When it is helpful, it feels more like 'downloading' a blueprint or watching a puzzle self-assemble.
And yeah, there's always the option available to notice whatever (thought-like) textures are appearing as pure omnipresent timeless radiance.