tomtrytostay

nice. Absolutely a simple thought is of no interest to me. Only problems and solutions. 

yes that last line. Nikprit isn't it true that everyone that wonders about their existence feels like that to a degree?

anyway I should see my family. In my head some of you guys might think. 

My daughter says everyone on that site is crazy and even they think you are crazy!

thanks for the company guys. Good luck guys. Have a good evening. 

 Yes, the anchor being one's breath. Yet there are no anchors..What does one do when they find there are no anchors?

  But it is the very thought which deems some parts of itself problems and others non-problems. Yet by not observing thought as a whole, who's to say its judgment, which you support, is ok? You are not questioning that very judgment and so the solutions being found may not be viable.

  So what you described so far, I wouldn't call that observation yet.

....and your practice please Troy?

I can relate to obsessive thinking, and I would believe it's pretty common for everyone to experience intrusive thoughts every now and then. The problem with OCD, I assume, is the meaning that comes together with the thought.

Tom goes to the beach to "observe his thoughts", while a more healthy approach would be to simply go to the beach. We don't go to the beach to observe our thoughts but to be in the world. A healthy mind is aware of its own stupidity. We're aware of how easy it is to be delusional. That's why we want to be filled with something else than our crappy thoughts.

Tom also shows an overinflated responsibility towards his children. Most of us will just accept that the world is a risky place and that our influence is minimal.

Anyways, I would like to write something about Buddhism and free will, but I'm off to bed.

  I must say I don't call 'Buddha's meditation 'meditation'. The mind can calm itself in several ways. Apart from following one's breath, one can repeat a word until the mind dies down. Or by taking a powerful drug.

  I don't call that meditation. I don't call meditation anything that takes part away from life--like practice this, stop practicing now, continue later. In other words, anything apart from life itself is not meditation. By the same token, what I mean is that practice is continuous. But that is also wrongly put, because it's not a deliberate practice: it must happen, and if doesn't, then there is no meditation.

  It happens all the time, day or night. Not a practice, I'm not doing anything. It cannot be forced to happen--too fragile.

So Buddha is wrong about meditation? 

A pic of 'German' & Swiss, high school sophmores - Who were 'polled' and would rather have 'Estren' as their 'teacher' {by a wide-margin}, than 'Tom' ..lol

  But people have contradictory desires...

  Buddha or no Buddha, one can call it meditation, and they do, out there, one can call anything meditation, but regardless of how it's called, it's not conducive to a core transformation in perception: nothing is.

  Ah, true meditation can never be taught. One cannot make another see.