Stop Talking and Thinking

Are you able to stop thinking in the same way that you are able to stop talking?

For me, thinking seems involuntary; so I wonder if “thinking” is the right word when Sengcan says:

Stop talking and thinking, and you penetrate everywhere.

In the Foyan, Cleary uses the word “cogitating”, which means to ‘think deeply about something; meditate or reflect’.

“Cogitating” seems more voluntary to me than “thinking”; and I can say that I do feel capable of stopping that like the way that I can stop talking.

Submitted February 05, 2019 at 01:43AM by kaneckt http://bit.ly/2Sbucw8