how does one see thought so as to stop it during no-thought meditation?

Answer 1

Hello
I have carefully gone through all the answers posted and was really amazed to find a lot of people providing answers without even having understood the question. I will suggest you to read all the answers again and you will understand that they are artificially flavored. First of all, lemme tell you that it is really and easily possible to have no thought during meditation; rather this is the first step.
Secondly, you may like to understand that the scope of your question goes beyond human senses and, henceforth, no physical or mental exercise/yoga etc. will help you attain the requisite state of being.
Further, had the question being answered within one or two pages of text, almost every literate person would have been able to attain the subject state. If you are really interested you can mail me at [e-mail].
Since, you are at present having a confusion regarding your next step, I would like to provide you with a clue that can make you feel the warmth of being near to the subject state. "JUST WATCH YOURSELF IN YOUR MIND" like watch yourself while reading all this as if you have split personality one of whom is watching the other reading all this. Thereafter, watch yourself thinking over it. What I am thinking? Why I am thinking? Who am I? Why am I doing all this ****? Am I really doing a ****? No.
Best Wishes to me

Adultvish

Answer 2

I'm probably not at all qualified to answer this, as I've never studied any official methods of meditation. But when I want to clear my mind, and empty it of thoughts, I imagine a tiny rosebud in my mind that grows bigger and opens up and leaves no more room for anything else. True, I'm still left thinking about a rose, but that's a lot less than everything that WAS in my mind. Seems to me some kind of "visual" trick like this might help you. Emptying your mind from scratch kinda seems like quitting something cold turkey - sometimes it's easier to find a middle-ground and make the journey gradually. Good luck!

Answer 3

Meditation is an intensely personal, internal experience, aimed at 'quiet mind'. The objective is to silence your 'internal dialog', such that the 'silent watcher' behind your thoughts can experience reality directly, unmediated by the senses.

While there are many different ways to meditate, the simplest for a beginner is the 'counting' meditation. Find a nice quite spot where you can stretch out and relax... the quieter and more comfortable, the better. Close your eyes, and breathe deeply and slowly, in through your nose, out through your mouth. Count each exhalation silently, in your mind. When you get to four, start over...

inhale... exhale.. (1)...
inhale... exhale.. (2)...
inhale... exhale.. (3)...
inhale... exhale.. (4)...
inhale... exhale.. (1)...
inhale... exhale.. (2)...
... etc.

As you do this, various thoughts will pop up in your mind, and you may lose track of the counting. As you notice them, you must gently dismiss those them, and return to your task of breathing and counting... 1... 2... 3... 4...

Your subconscious does not want your mind to be silent, and so it will oppose what you are doing.

As you learn to dismiss these extraneous thoughts more easily, your mind will become more desperate, and you may start hearing auditory hallucinations... voices... strange sounds. They are not real... it is just your mind playing tricks on you. Gently dismiss them, just like the extraneous thoughts.

As your mind gets more desperate, you may experience visions... sort of like waking dreams. They will seem very interesting, fascinating, and you will want to follow them, and focus on them. Do not. Again, it will just be your mind playing tricks on you. Gently dismiss them, and return to your task of breathing and counting... 1... 2... 3... 4...

This will not all happen at once, of course. Do this once or twice a day, every day, at the same time (if possible), for 15 or 20 minutes at a time. As you gain experience, you may work up to around 30 minutes. You will find that it is very relaxing and refreshing, and that after doing it, you will feel very refreshed and alert... recharged. It may take you a few weeks... maybe even a month or two... before you are actually able to achieve 'quiet mind'... but once you do, you will find yourself experiencing a sense of 'connectedness' that will blow your mind. I will not try to describe it for you... you will know it when it comes. When you first achieve it, you will be frustrated, because it will only last for a fraction of a second... once you 'notice' that you have achieved connectedness, it will vanish. The trick, as you will learn through practice, is to 'experience' it without 'noticing' it.

Get a book titled to 'How To Meditate', by Lawrence LeShan. And, you might look up 'how to meditate' in Google. Also look up 'satori' and 'kundalini'.

Once you master this technique, you will find other purposes for meditation, and master more sophisticated techniques.

You will find this to be one of most profoundly rewarding experiences of your life. Good luck.

Answer 4

The point of meditation is not to stop thought. The point is to become aware of thoughts so that one may see many of them for what they are: little ethereal things that have little bearing on reality. And when one sees thoughts for what they are, one learns to discard or disregard the petty, useless ones...to detach from them, to divest them of their power. One also learns to "hear" or "see" the thoughts that come from a power much greater than oneself. Those thoughts will surface when the others have been seen through like the gossamer they are.

Answer 5

the entire point of meditation is to bring control over the thought process of the mind. we tend to think of various thing simultaneously without actually focussing on any one in particularly, meditation teaches you to focus on any one thing only, the breathing and hence brings order to the mind by relaxing it. With practice, meditation will increase the focus and clarity of thought and hence benefit in being calm and having a neutral viewpoint in solving various issues faced in life.

Answer 6

Keep practicing the meditation. Eventually you will acheive the desired result.

Answer 7

This is easiest when you're tired. Just get into a position where you know you can't fall asleep, and then try to. Thinking about anything, even how to stop thinking, will never work.

Answer 8

you can't stop your thoughts it is impossible you just have to when you think of a thought let it go try and forget about it and then think about something else and let it go. It is impossible to stop thinking therefore you just have to try and not concentrate on one specific thought just keep letting htem go & thinking bsout other things.

Answer 9

practice. clear my thoughts. repetition. the serenity prayer repeatedly, helps me stop thinking. oh how grand life is when I don't think.

Answer 10

Free your thoughts, be very calm and let your mind be still and you are on your way.............nothing is important.