Japanese artists , the author notes, do their work, when they stop breathing, Sekida and Grimstone,72.
My own observations and experiences show one cannot stop a succession of preoccupations with one thought after another as long as one does not stop breathing and as such it is hard to focus and get work done, if one is in such state. For more information on how to stop breathing, please see the chapters on breathing in the book, Zen Training: Methods and Philosophy.
Long distance walking or walking around a circle, containing some sort of trees, is another way to gain freedom from one preoccupation to another and thus gain a capacity to focus and get work done.
Only one thought is able to assume the mental stage, the author says, at any given point in time, Sekida and Grimstone, 108.
Sometimes, one thinks there is too many thoughts in the mind. The author says this is not so; there is only one thought at a time, the rest are in the peripheries.
The point of meditation, if there is any, is to have no thought or thoughts, so as to make the mind.
My own observations and experiences show one cannot stop a succession of preoccupations with one thought after another as long as one does not stop breathing and as such it is hard to focus and get work done, if one is in such state. For more information on how to stop breathing, please see the chapters on breathing in the book, Zen Training: Methods and Philosophy.
Long distance walking or walking around a circle, containing some sort of trees, is another way to gain freedom from one preoccupation to another and thus gain a capacity to focus and get work done.
Only one thought is able to assume the mental stage, the author says, at any given point in time, Sekida and Grimstone, 108.
Sometimes, one thinks there is too many thoughts in the mind. The author says this is not so; there is only one thought at a time, the rest are in the peripheries.
The point of meditation, if there is any, is to have no thought or thoughts, so as to make the mind.
Thoughts cause pressure to arise, I noted: after becoming empty of all pressure through meditation, If I say something while I am silent, pressure on the head, such as the back of the head, comes up. This has inclined me to think that thought produces pressure.
Pressure, on the other hand, I observed, inclines one to say or act in ways congruent to its nature. If I think of an aggressive thought, then If don't check it, I will act in an aggressive manner, such as violently dropping a book on the table or something of that nature.
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