Do you agree? Have you had these moments?

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No Place For Thought
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A hundred thousand worlds
Are flowers in the sky
A single mind and body
Is moonlight on the water
Once the cunning ends
And information stops
At that moment there
Is no place for thought.

- Han-shan Te-ch’ing (1546-1623)



A hundred thousand words are flowers in the sky; To me it sounds like how my mind feels about reading, it seems like its so natural for me to do, it doesn't take any work or effort. The words in the book are kinda like flowers to look at in serenity. My mind and body become suspended in time as the moonlight on the water. There is no cunning or information to take into my mind, because to me I am a part of the story, and at that moment no thought, of my own, enters in...

Yes. They are non-dual moments. Drink the entire ocean in one sip, breath the entire sky in one breath.

I used to have moments like this, but between a business, school, a job, 2 kids, husband, and a house; I don't have the time. One more year and my schedule will loosen up and hopefully I will start to have these moments again.

I think it refers to calming the restless mind down...so it is like a still pond and able to reflect better. There is a concept called "Fana" and used in Sufism..and sometimes called absolute nothingness in the Baha'i Writings:

"This station is the dying from self and the living in God, the being poor in self and rich in the Desired One. Poverty as here referred to signifieth being poor in the things of the created world, rich in the things of God's world. For when the true lover and devoted friend reacheth to the presence of the Beloved, the sparkling beauty of the Loved One and the fire of the lover's heart will kindle a blaze and burn away all veils and wrappings. Yea, all he hath, from heart to skin, will be set aflame, so that nothing will remain save the Friend.

When the qualities of the Ancient of Days stood revealed,
Then the qualities of earthly things did Moses burn away."

- From the "Seven Valleys" revealed by Baha'u'llah

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"it benefits us to be thoughtful, not of the glory of our minds, but rather, above all else, of the glory of God."
- Johannes Kepler

I understand it this way:
Flourishing Beauty of Infinite Lives is Perpetually Active in Happiness, it is above and invisible for Mind and Body.
We may see ourselves without effort in mirrors like we see Moonlight in the water. However, we need work hard to look within and see True Us. Once we recognize who we truly are, once we accept our original powers, the "cunning" from our Minds will end, we will stop getting false information and therefore there would be "no place for thought", we will Feel the Answers with our Hearts.

with love and respect,
A.Pinski