Advanced No Thought Meditation Technique For Logical Analytical Minds
This technique is ideal for persons with very analytical or logical minds. Using the logic of the mind will bring the mind to a state of no thought by realizing that thought is constantly leading to unhappiness. This method is like a computer running a software routine that goes into an un-resolvable loop and then just halts or crashes. What is then left is a state of letting go of everything resulting in a vast infinite feeling of total quiet, calm, and peace. This is a glimpse of the state of being called being awake or being on the path to enlightenment.
Start by looking at and defining the current thought trends within your mind. For example, if your mind is often wandering toward wants and desires, you could define it as “My mind always wants something” or “My mind is always in a state of desire”. If you are a person who is often caught up in past events, you could define it as “My mind is in a constant state of regret”. Other possibilities might be “My mind is in a constant state of worry” or “My mind is in a constant state of fear”. Everyone’s mind is different so define it according to a state that is valid within your own mind.
Next, analyze and understand how that state can lead to suffering, or dissatisfaction. For example, if your mind is in a constant state of desire, the constant desire, if unfulfilled, can lead to unhappiness or worse. If fulfilled, it can lead to further desire or worse.
You now must form the intent to witness the mind in action, observing this state of mind as it occurs. You maintain a strong awareness of the mind in action wanting to see it occur. Create a sense of importance to it by realising that these thoughts are what prevent you from reaching enlightenment. Since your thought producing mind likes to be in control, it is only too happy to oblige. Your mind will throw out unsolicited thoughts that you will observe through your awareness and you then observe them to see if they are indeed capable of causing the problem you have identified. Examine them like a child looking at a bug in a jar, and then let them go and catch the next one the same way.
As you maintain awareness of these thoughts, you will witness thought after thought, and quickly become aware that all of these thoughts are indeed problematic. The mind itself will become aware of how it is leading to suffering through the awareness you have brought into play.
Once the mind realizes it is causing problems for you, it will want to try and find a solution. After all, the mind believes it can solve all problems through thought.
At this point the mind will try something like “I have to stop all desire”. Since you are still witnessing the nature of your thoughts, it will become evident that wanting to stop desire is still a form of desire. It may even realize that wanting to observe problematic thought is still a desire as well. The mind will quickly realize that it is the source of the very suffering it is observing. At this point the mind will stop thinking because it is unable to resolve this issue and no longer wants to be the cause of suffering. This is not just a desire to stop the problem; it is a total letting go of the thoughts themselves. This is the silence of the mind.
After entering the no-thought state new thoughts may still try to arise. Maintain awareness and check them for content. Any thoughts arising will most likely fit the criteria defined at the beginning and can thus be dropped to re-enter no-thought. After the mind finds any further attempts at re-introducing thought to be futile, it will throw meaningless thoughts out that can best be labeled as RUBISH. After acknowledging and dismissing several rubbish thoughts the mind stops throwing out any more thoughts and you can settle in and remain in that state.
After you leave no-thought state spend a few minutes in contemplative meditation and form the intent to maintain awareness of the thought pattern at all times so that you can acknowledge and let go of it on an ongoing basis until it becomes solidified and concrete.
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| Michael L. Fournier |
Thanks for this. Good stuff!
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ReplyDeleteIt's Chris from the Windsor Meditation Group, this post is really helpful. I find I am oscillating between the clarity of No-Thought and my normal egoic mind depending on what is required of me. It is very easy to be peaceful on the pillow, but back into the world of form is really where the spiritual rubber hits the road. I think seeing thoughts arising in the backdrop of silence helps to not grasp at them. This then is a great pointer back to the true self. To see that only silence is truth and thoughts are the imagined self that we have come to know.
Keep at it Chris, the oscillation is normal. It is simply part of the swinging of the Samsaric pendulum. As you continue your practice, you will find that it is like moving from the ball of the pendulum, up the shaft to the pivot point, where the movement is the least noticeable.
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