Thinking of thoughts

[Glaucus]

The reason I ask is that i can't comprehend not thinking. It's like breathing, it's involuntary but what's intriguing is that how some people can just switch off and others can't?

Thoughts on this matter?

same NR my thoughts of Os that they are still thinking, just categorizing it differently or distracted.

 

[4T5]

You have to think of something even if it is thinking of nothing, I'm confused now.

 

[lucy_bee]

Whenever I try and think of nothing, the image and voice of Professor Hubert J Farnsworth inevitably pervades my mind.

And he's a pain to get rid of.

 

[geuben]

I don't think it's possible. When you try to think of nothing you might imagine a big black emptiness but there will always be time in that emptiness. I don't think is possible to not think about time.

 

[Pudney]

I don't think it's possible. When you try to think of nothing you might imagine a big black emptiness but there will always be time in that emptiness. I don't think is possible to not think about time.

I don't think of time. I don't realise time until I come out of it. I literally think of nothing.

 

[arc@css]

Is it possible to actually think of nothing

Yes, try breathing meditation.

 

[EdGey]

I attempted to think of nothing, but all I did was think of black.

 

[cm1179]

surely you should be worried if your brain is capable of thinking of nothing?

 

[Spangles]

I am sure some of the people I work with have the ability to think of nothing!.

 

[MisChief]

I think of nothing all the time.

 

[Usher]

Je pense donc je suis

 

[bitslice]

Just tried, seems pretty easy to me

 

[Brookert]

I find trying to think of nothing actually makes it worse, and a billion random things try to jump into your mind at once.

 

[sigma]

Meditation?

 

[InKursion]

It's pretty much impossible philosophically to think of 'nothingness', it's too abstract a category. It's like death, only minus the unpleasantness. I'm not sure human beings have the brain capacity to think of 'nothingness'. All of our thoughts and concepts are tied somehow to experiential things, for e.g. the oft-quoted little factoid about 'every face you ever imagine being a face you have actually seen'. The brain works with the external materials of the world, through intellect and memory. What is nothingness? How do you picture... nothingness? 'Clearing your head' may be what your girlfriend means.

 

[badcompany]

meditation involves clearing you mind of thoughts.

 

[Jokester]

I just clear my mind of thoughts. Simple, I thought everyone did this?

I don't think of nothing, I don't think at all.

 

[arc@css]

Try it for five or more (fifteen or twenty) minutes. That's a little harder, and is something you work up to in various types of meditation. If a thought enters your mind, eject it. Let it go.

 

[Pudney]

I don't think of nothing, I don't think at all.

That's a better way of explaining it.

 

[Mik3]

I believe one of the goals of enlightenment of a Buddhist monk is to think of nothing or something like that?

I don't see how its possible, just by thinking of nothing your creating something and you still see nothing even when your eyes are shut.