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**avaiftBoara** · 02-05-2011, 10:08 PM

It's just part of having a body, being alive.

I would add to the list thinking and reasoning - that is to say, interpreting/integrating our sense data into a picture of the world ( including abstractions) that makes sense to us and allows us to deal with the life we have rather than being buffeted about randomly. I do not see meditation as a means of shutting off thinking (with all that comes with it) but as a means of directing and controlling the thought process in a way that allows "better" to deal with reality.

02-05-2011, 10:08 PM	#26
avaiftBoara Join Date Oct 2005 Posts 414 Senior Member	It's just part of having a body, being alive. I would add to the list thinking and reasoning - that is to say, interpreting/integrating our sense data into a picture of the world ( including abstractions) that makes sense to us and allows us to deal with the life we have rather than being buffeted about randomly. I do not see meditation as a means of shutting off thinking (with all that comes with it) but as a means of directing and controlling the thought process in a way that allows "better" to deal with reality.
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