'Don't entertain thoughts and concepts' is a conclusion drawn via the entertaining of thoughts and concepts.
To entertain is to consider...is to contemplate...is to focus(the thought(s)). Is attention...to use one of Godszen's words,which he is now advising us to abandon. On Jul 27, 2:12 am, [email protected] wrote: > Don't entertain thoughts and concepts. > Why not? > > Don't do this...don't do that... > Why not? > > Isn't it all just a play of consciousness that goes on spontaneously? > > Why should I behave, think, believe in a certain way? > > I'll tell you why. > It is because you want something you have to follow 'instructions'/'orders', > right? > > If you transcend wanting (in spiritual matters) you have no constrains in > what to do or not do. > > What do I want? How will I achieve that? Bla bla > > Of course there is something we all want, it is the state of permanent > absence of suffering, pain... > So we 'follow instructions' of gurus. But if I (for example) don't care about > 'getting' that, I can do/think.. whatever I want. > I can't prevent the arisal of suffering anyway. Can you? > > Ps. I don't believe that shit about that the owner of suffering disappears, > because the 'I' also arises the same way suffering does. No way of preventing > that. > Sent via BlackBerry from Vodafone
