Thoughtlessness in no way implies an absence of conscious activity. To remain simply without thought is to grasp at blankness; it is little different from the insentience of rocks and plants. Thoughtlessness refers rather to the absence of defilements during conscious activity.
---Tracing Back the Radiance: Chinul's Korean Way of Zen, by Robert E. Buswell, Jr.---
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