Forgetting the Mind The question of thought-versus-no-thought, which you raise again, is really a non-issue—when perceived from the standpoint of nonduality. Your primary focus needs to be to answer this question to your own satisfaction: what is the ultimate nature, the truth, of actuality? When the answer to that question is unquestionably clear to you, the minor issue of “How is one to progress, from the present state of thought, to the desired state of no-thought?” will automatically resolve itself. That which Wing-Shing Chan describes as “wunien” is awareness which is “empty of objects of the mind”; therefore it is also an awareness in which the subject is absent. You are the subject, the “thinker”; the objects in this case, are “thoughts” (including thoughts of concern about “thinking”). Hui Neng speaks (spoke) of “idea-less-ness,” or freedom from “idle thoughts.” All dualistic concepts are merely ideas about how the nondual actuality appears to be expressing itself. When the dual appearances have been resolved in your mind as the realization that—whatever you conceive— ”That too is It,” there is consequently only one thought, no “idle” thoughts. Hui Neng describes further “an attitude of…no attachment, toward all things.” That means not being attached to ideas of achieving some desirable condition, such as “no thought.” Chan elaborates on wunien:
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