Friday, March 3, 2017

Right Thinking = No thinking

Listen deeply to the following Thay's Dharma talk on Right Thinking from 25:07 to 28:50.
https://tnhaudio.org/2017/02/26/practice-engaged-buddhism/
The followings are excerpts. This Thay's clear explanation of Right Thinking is exactly what I have been looking for and I totally agree.

Quote:
And then the second aspect of the path is the Right Thinking, Right Thought. As far as the absolute truth is concerned, Right Thinking is absence of all thinking. It is direct encounter with reality. You don't need to think. Like you are tasting a mango, you are having authentic, true, real experience of the mango. You don't need to think that a mango tastes like this, like that, the notion of mango. You don't need any notions of mango because you had a reality of mango. Right? So, Right Thinking is no thinking at all.

But when you have not got the real thing, you need some kinds of notions, you need some kinds of orientations in order not to go astray. You have to go into the direction of the mango. So, Right Thinking is the thinking in terms of the four nutriments. Right Thinking is the thinking in terms of impermanence, non-self. It helps. Because if you think in terms of permanence of self, you suffer much more. And it is always important to remember that these are teachings as four nutriments; Four Noble Truths, Noble Eightfold Path, impermanence, non-self are instruments for the practice. And that is Right Thinking.

And if you conceive these as notions, as a doctrine to fight and die for, that's no longer the Right Thinking. Even if these are Buddhist terms, we are to be free from the teachings of the Buddha. We have to be free even of the teachings of the Buddha. If you should not get caught in the teachings of the Buddha, you should make good use of the teachings, not get caught in it.

And the Right View (the absence of all views, the capacity of liberating us) helps very much with Right Thinking. Because the writers are your view the better of your thinking.  And they interact with each other. If your thinking is in good direction, and then your right view will grow, your freedom will grow. 
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<Key phrases>
Right Thinking is absence of all thinking.
Right Thinking is no thinking at all.
Right Thinking is the thinking in terms of the four nutriments.
Right Thinking is the thinking in terms of impermanence, non-self.
Four Noble Truths, Noble Eightfold Path, impermanence, non-self are instruments for the practice. And that is Right Thinking.
If you conceive these as notions, as a doctrine to fight and die for, that's no longer the Right Thinking.
Right View (the absence of all views, the capacity of liberating us) helps very much with Right Thinking.
Because the writers are your view the better of your thinking.
Right View and Right Thinking interact with each other.

(Cf.) 
http://compassion5151.blogspot.jp/2016/09/right-thinking-non-thinking-insight.html
http://compassion5151.blogspot.jp/2017/01/2-types-of-thinking.html
http://compassion5151.blogspot.jp/2017/01/right-thinking.html

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