ED,
My answer is as always my own opinion:
1. I assume by 'right thinking' you are referring the the Buddhist
Noble Eightfold Path which includes:
* right view
* right intention
* right speech
* right action
* right livelihood
* right effort
* right mindfulness
* right concentration
I don't see 'right thinking' in the list.
2. Anyway, this list is part of the Buddhist religion and not zen.
3. In zen any and all thinking is okay. Thinking produces illusory
concepts, but that's okay. Categorizations are okay. Judgments are
okay. It is the attachment to these illusory things that is 'not okay',
and by that I mean attachments tend to inhibit your awareness of Buddha
Nature.
...Bill!
--- In [email protected], "ED" <seacrofter001@...> wrote:
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> Edgar, Bill and All,
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> So it is the case that 'right thinking' is OK in zen, (but not
> discursive, judgmental thinking.) Yes?
>
> --ED
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> --- In [email protected], Edgar Owen edgarowen@ wrote:
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> > Information is neutral not painful. The pain is in the reaction to
the
> information not the information and that can be changed by right
> thought.
> >
> > Edgar
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