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What is Rational? Can you Unthink?
Is it possible to not think about anything?
If it is, are there really stupid people around, whom are actually thoughtless? Or is this just how our judgment and our ego is telling us we don't agree with them?
If there is a "Rational mind", can you prove there is also an "Irrational mind", or are there only, "Irrational thoughts", which are simply ones we don't agree with?
The main way no thought exists, is if I fall asleep, or I try to figure out what some one else is thinking, but can't. On the other hand, some people have such active minds, that they are literally often thinking through 2 problems at a time. So it's probably not that big a deal if someone can not be thinking, but it doesn't matter, because if their not, they soon will be, otherwise they wouldn't be alive.
I practice meditation, but I have learned not to try to "destroy thought", but rather concentrate on breathing, or the mandala, as do the experts.
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- MicheallaLv 610 years agoFavourite answer
Yep, that is what i was going to say. The psychiatric wards with people whom have schizophrenia are whom we regard as with the irrational minds.
Yes there are really stupid people around whom without trying can impress us with their stupidity and irrationality and stun us entirely with their compounded self worth ... some of us call them ' Bosses'
When one enters a higher state of Meditation and when one enters a totally different plane spiritually and mentally then it is possible that no thought exists.
- JesereLv 710 years ago
yes, one can clear the mind of all thought...
it's usually referred to as meditation
as far as agreeing and disagreeing with someone, that is just a difference of opinion....nothing to do with not thinking
just because someone does not agree with you this does not make them stupid...it indicates the person who thinks such is immature and insecure.
there are people who are thinking, it is other thoughts
they are so preoccupied with selfish thoughts, they do not think about what they are about to say and do, giving the impression that they just don't think.
If you want Proof of an Irrational Mind just visit any Local Psychiatric Unit and check out the Lock Down Wards...