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Originally Posted by Anagogy  Consciousness is awareness, thought is the shape of that awareness. Simple.
So if we go by this idea, the only way to ever stop thinking would be to remove all filters from your consciousness. When the stream of consciousness is no longer being shaped by a filter (which is any conditioning factor in your mind), you no longer have a shape, and hence, no thoughts.  |
Since every experience is a conditioning factor, to reach such a state you've have to return to a pre-birth form of experience. You'd have to be able to passively shut out every single imprint of every single experience accumulated throughout your life.
Short of extensive brain damage, do you think that's possible?
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Originally Posted by Acting Like Godot In fact, Osho explains enlightenment as the state of being free from your past conditioning. |
Same as Jed McKenna, except he doesn't explain it at all concisely.