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**hernkingAnank** · 04-20-2011, 07:41 AM

Hello again!
I was interested in this statement, "For the mind to "see clearly" (vipassana), the mind need simply stop its chatter" and, because your statement was also, 'The Buddha did not instruct such techniques' , I thought that you were suggesting that what the Buddha instructed was that (simply) calming the mind is sufficient, meaning sufficient to realize enlightenment as he did.

So what I wanted to know was, where did the Buddha instruct that calming the mind is all that is needed. I won't dispute that it IS needed, but if it was all that were needed, and it was simple to do, there would be a lot more enlightened people.

It is possible, with regular practice, to still the mind. but I don't think this itself automatically opens the door to clear thinking. It might open the door to "no thinking" .

04-20-2011, 07:41 AM	#17
hernkingAnank Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 393 Senior Member	Hello again! I was interested in this statement, "For the mind to "see clearly" (vipassana), the mind need simply stop its chatter" and, because your statement was also, 'The Buddha did not instruct such techniques' , I thought that you were suggesting that what the Buddha instructed was that (simply) calming the mind is sufficient, meaning sufficient to realize enlightenment as he did. So what I wanted to know was, where did the Buddha instruct that calming the mind is all that is needed. I won't dispute that it IS needed, but if it was all that were needed, and it was simple to do, there would be a lot more enlightened people. It is possible, with regular practice, to still the mind. but I don't think this itself automatically opens the door to clear thinking. It might open the door to "no thinking" .
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