Having no thoughts when doing nothing is so alien and bizarre to me, one of the things I struggle to imagine XD the complete inability to empty my head no matter what was one of my major and epic failures when someone was explaining how to meditate to me (the other epic failure was my inability to sit still, I can't unless I'm drawing or gaming, sitting still doing literal nothing is nigh on impossible for me XD).
and then I always have the accusations/statements that I overthink everything
Your colleague doesn't even think about any news or tv shows or games or anything that they like, or their family or hobbies or anything? o_O
I think they might be an alien - it is really weird.
I think the "empty your mind" is a misconception of meditation or, only one type of path to take. I reckon some people are better off thinking more :)
I have watched and at times it really does seem that there is no thought in there - they are intelligent when focusing, but once there is no "need" to think, they don't. No imagination?
On the one hand I kind of want to ask other people about their thoughts or lackthereof now, but on the other I'm not the greatest of conversationalists and I have no idea whatsoever how I would go about approaching that kind of subject, even though my friends are generally used to me springing semi-random questions at them from seemingly out of the blue XD
I feel like the emptying of the mind thing came about because people generally have a lot of thoughts that causes stress and getting rid of them (at least temporarily) helps alleviate the stress. These days it seems to be more accepted that some people reach that meditative state differently (but of course with people being people the way they do it is the one true right way and the people that are achieving it slightly differently well sure they're kind of there but they aren't doing it quite right and thus will never achieve proper nirvana ;D)
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