Thought-Free Situation

Thinking processes are necessary to cope with the environment. In our life from the moment, we wake up each morning, we start to interact with our surroundings. In almost every moment there are signals coming from our five sense organs: eyes, ears, nose, tongue and skin. We need to think in order to interpret and understand these signals. That’s why we hear the phrase ‘I think, therefore I am’. It means that without thinking, we are missing something in our human life.

Meditation is another mode of mind function. When we open our eyes, we are the subject and the environment is the object. We need to interpret what we perceive from the environment, so we need to know how to think.

To meditate, we observe ourselves. We are the subject and object at the same time. The thinking process doesn’t work anymore for this mode. To ‘stop’ thinking or be free from thought is a new situation we need to be comfortable doing.

When the mind doesn’t move, it will be more powerful. Especially, if our mind can be still at the center of the body it will be able to connect to an important resource of energy and wisdom. That’s why we say, ‘less can be more’. The less your mind moves, the more powerful and helpful it can be.

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Phra Pawithai Vajiravijjo (2016), Inspirational Meditation For Beginners page 36