I tend to think that there is a time and place for any teaching. For someone who is attached to thinking, the teacher would recommend non- thinking. For someone who is attached to non-thinking, the teacher would recommend letting go of non-thinking. Generally, I find that attachment to thinking is a problem more for beginners on the path whereas attachment to non-thinking is a problem more for the fairly advanced practitioners. For myself personally, I have found that attachment to thinking is more problematic than attachment to non-thinking. In fact, I find that attachment to non-thinking hasn't really been a problem at all for me, because when we are truly free of thinking and conceptualizing, we are able to perceive truths as they really are, and experience the oneness of both subject and object, self and others. And in that experience, compassion (as well as joy and peace) arises naturally. And this compassion will motivate us to use our abilities, including thinking, to help others. So in a way attachment to non-thinking has become a problem that resolves itself, if it is indeed a problem to begin with. Unfortunately, such a kind of experience happens to me only once in a very very long while. Does anyone here share a similar experience?
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