Wordless Questioning with the subtitle “an introduction to Buddhist meditation and reflection” is exactly that. A no-nonsense guide to the basics and further along the more complex topics of Buddhist meditation practices. The book was written by and published in 2022. From the book:
Facts and statements are attractive to the thinking mind, we feel a kind of security in reciting facts. We would like to say, ‘I had a good meditation’, ‘I had a bad meditation.’ We want to create distinctions and to name our experience. This is the dissatisfied mind. It wants to become something, it wants to arrive at a state and have a name. But there is nowhere it likes to stop. It goes on and on until we notice that, in this constant running, we are completely exhausted. When it becomes apparent that we are the ones doing this, the naming stops. It stops because seeing replaced not-seeing; knowing replaced ignorance. Consciously seeing the naming is enough to stop the compulsion from continuing. In the present, everything is changing, nothing is static. Everything moves, experience is turning and flowing. It doesn’t pose for a photo and wait for us to name it. In this change, the doubtful and anxious questions, identity and goals dissolve and lose their meaning.
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