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Originally Posted by OlderWiser  Of course. Just the chasing your own tail kind of thinking, which is what an awful lot of people engage in. |
I'd also like to add that if you're doing it just for the stimulation I don't see an issue. When mental masturbation is a problem is when you're wholly convinced that you're going somewhere when in fact you're spinning your wheels.
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I find that when I stop thinking and let go, understanding comes. The more I gnaw on it, the less likely I am to figure it out.
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The same is true for me. This is getting a little mystical, but the thinking you do inside your head isn't really thinking, it's thought energy crystallized. All you're doing is rearranging inert energy within a particular frame.
If you want to go beyond that you've got to quiet the mind and tap into the energy which flows into it. The point is not to shut down the intellect but to put it in its proper place-it's an interpreter. It doesn't do the heavy lifting on its own, it only tells you what you're getting out of the energy you've poured into it. And similar to how a good interpreter would use equivalent grammatical quirks to retain meaning, the mind distills energy into a useful form.