New Age United
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No I am not suggesting that you should abandon the intellectual faculties of your mind but what makes you believe that thinking is what keeps you alive? It is possible to remain fully conscious in the absence of thought; it takes years of practice but once one has mastered Zen it becomes very easy to maintain this state of no thought and it becomes very clear that the mind was creating unnecessary suffering for you and that it is still creating unnecessary suffering for the vast majority of humanity. If you are interested I can help accelerate the process.There is no such thing as an off-button to the mind. And stopping to think equals death. Though most likely you want me to refrain from reasoning.... that would be a pity. This is a "humanity wake up call"-thread. Making abstract rational thoughts is what we can do best. No other animal has such impressive frontal lobes as our brain. The latest in evolutionairy biotech merely ~70k years old. Suddenly men painted fantastic creatures never seen of at cave walls, made artificial fire and designed tools for hunt and conquest. And all that in times of great turmoil after a major volcano explosion in todays Indonesia?Burma? caused a 5-6 year long ice age which reduced mankind's number to no more than 2.000 individuals. We got incredible lucky in the past.
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