Silence,
the secret key to obtaining inner peace. No disturbing thoughts, no sad thoughts, no angry thoughts, no pompous thoughts, no jealous thoughts, no insecure thoughts when responding spontaneously to the present.
Bliss from focus, a natural lift resulting from a clear perception of the present.
Yet is it necessary to permanently and totally sacrifice logic to achieve this inner peace? Worthwhile as silence is to obtain, and effective as a taboo against logic is at inducing it, is it worth giving up complex thinking skills to abide in a sort of state of natural, spiritual, unaddictive heroin?
There are no arguments against reflecting when not reflecting. & saying, “logic is a fallacy” is full of holes - is not the statement itself a fallacy then? Meaning it can only hope to, at “best”, level off the justification for thinking or not at 50/50 odds.
Which is what not reflecting does. The odds are 50/50, because unassessed.
One alternative source of inner peace to not thinking might be emotio-sensory self determinism. If using the eight circuit model (Timothy Leary’s consciousness model) to unlock, I would suspect the 6th circuit (the self programming circuit) to be most useful.
Practice, 24 - 7, maintaining the desired emotional-sensory state of being. No suffering, mostly love, determination to achieve altruistic ends by all sentient life - and especially by way of what you may do to be of pragmatic assistance to your local environment.
Learn to release negative emotions like fear by exposing yourself to safe yet frightening situations, and meditating on releasing fear. Watch sad movies, and learn to release the sorrow you feel by re-igniting the love you had for the characters, and motivating yourself to do positive things in memory of the fallen heroes - what they would have wanted.
As a starting meditation, outbreath releases unwanted emotion, inbreath induces an increase in positive motivation and bliss.
My suggestion: do not forsake silence, learn to focus,
but do not put lack of reflection upon a pedestal, that when an opportunity to solve a problem, large or small problem, occurs, one goes into a “turtleshell formation” of enlightenment - and abides in more immediacy than is called for.
“Wall gaze” until silence is easier (by a hair) than reflection (clocking at least 2 straight hours of silence),
then solve all the world’s problems.
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(edit: inserted 5/17 1:56 AM)
While perfect focus is an excellent tool, if it comes at the expense of all logic and philosophy, I don’t see the reason for the sacrifice and I don’t think it’s worth it.
One yogi or guru or man in a mancave meditates so long he achieves inner peace, and if he has loving-kindness, he perhaps senses nonverbal intuitively that others would benefit from inner peace, and so he says to another fellow, “Meditate.” And another fellow achieves inner peace, and shares the secret, “Meditate,” with another fellow.
All these enlightened people have is perfect focus. If it seems like not thinking is the solution to achieving perfect focus, the world collapses all around them and they’re ok with that - when if they had used the perfect focus to supercharge their ability to think, to solve real problems, they could have prevented the catastrophe.
Perfect focus seems to me like it should be used to solve problems.