How to stop thinking about metaphysical questions?
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Recite a mantra like Buddho each time you think of it. Then, you'll eventually break the habit
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Don't you think metaphysics is only a grammar-playing with "transcendental" or "universalia" !? π‘π
You play with concepts when you ask about the border between the finite and infinite or about the place where the space is ... ππΌ
Better paint something as a kind of vipassana ... ππΌ
Better learn new language and you'll see new paradigms of metaphysics ... ππΌ
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Metaphysics is rendering Language as Reality. Grammar as Physical Law. That's why The Buddha answered wth epochΓ© to Metaphysical questions and added PRACTICE IN PHYSICAL LIFE and body's (Sati)patthana.
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βIN THEORY THERE IS NO DIFFERENCE BETWEEN THEORY AND PRACTICE, IN PRACTICE THERE IS.β & βYou can observe a lot by just watching.β
β Yogi Berra
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This typifies the Zen approach to koan practice, in which the master gives the student a koan which cannot be answered by conventional methods. This eventually causes the student to break down which in Zen is called The Great Doubt. This is seen as the breaking down of the intellect which can cause a myriad of unsettling symptoms - annoyance being one such symptom - but leads to a more refined and fluid version of mental processing.
In your particular case, the koan you unwittingly stumbled upon might be "what was your original face before your parents were born?"
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Take a look at the suggestions in the Discourse on the Relaxation of Thoughts or also called the Discourse on the Removal of Distracting Thoughts.
Below, let me summarize the techniques found in that sutta or discourse. This is the recommended sequence. If the first one works, you don't need to go to the second one.
- Think about something else, which is skillful
- Scrutinize the drawbacks and unskillfulness of the distracting thoughts and see how they result in suffering
- Pay no attention to those distracting thoughts
- Force yourself to stop thinking about those distracting thoughts
- With your teeth clenched and your tongue pressed against the roof of your mouth - you should beat down, constrain, and crush your mind with your awareness.
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I can actually give you an answer...but would that satisfy you? Would you trust this stranger enough to trust her words?
"metaphysical questions or what could be after death or if it is nothing etc"
The answer is neither of those things happen. What happens is something that you cant imagine. Its impossible to imagine, it is unfathomable. If it could be experienced through a break down of the body (NDE), it would still be innefible (unexplainable or impossible to put into words.) This being the case, it is not a matter to think about but to experience. You can actually uncover this knowledge through deep meditation, the eightfold path, total purification of the heart and mind. This is what the buddah and thousands buddahs and thousands arhants have done; they have diligently practiced to the point of reaching this total wisdom about the fabric of reality. They could not think about it, it is inefficient to think about it...they practiced their way into it. The knowledge fell on their lap so to say, as inevitably will happen to an ascetic practicing meditation diligently and with loving compassion and luck.
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Practice Vipassana meditation using breath or walking. This will help you to contemplate on wholesome thought. If you want to stop Vitakka and Vicara you have to practice Samatha meditation. Vitakka and Vicara stop at second Jhana which is I have not experienced myself. Being aware that your mind is unrest alone is meditation. If you can increase this awareness, you will improve your meditation eventually.
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