Is meditation about not thinking

The purpose of meditation is to watch the thinking so the mind can digest the mind enough to implode into the infinite truth, which is your permanent state, home.I had to agree with the roshi, who then explained that the problem with thinking was not thinking per se, but thinking that was stuck.Bus, that is how it is dear.That does not mean the mind will be empty—thoughts will still appear—but we are not looking to engage with these thoughts.That is impossible (until much later down the path, of course) as the natural function of your brain is to produce thoughts.

And when no thoughts can enter you, they will come and they will bypass you.At some point you notice that your mind has veered off, and you disentangle yourself from that distracting train of thought, and come back to the breath.Until that day comes, i'm going to keep on lying down and closing my eyes.In fact, the very, very highest states of meditation happen in the absence of mind.You're not supposed to think in meditation, i said.

Mindful meditation is more about noticing thoughts when they enter the head and noticing again when they pass, without getting too attached or drawn into them.In meditation one has a single point of focus, and one does not change that—it is always the same focus.Noticing the thinking, not judging the thinking, and continuously returning to the present moment is the practice of meditation.It's not usually helpful, rarely yields viable solutions to problems, and worst of all, w orry disguises itself as proper thinking.Meditation brings up emotions and memories you may have suppressed in the past, and that can lead to a deluge of negative feelings that can be hard to handle.

The insight he shares in that short free sample (the beginning of his text) is simple amazing (at least in the portuguese version of the free sample, but i suppose it is the same in english and other languages).Meditation is not what you think, for it is beyond thinking.