Look, listen, smell, taste, or feel all you wish. Walk, stand, sit, crouch, or lie down at your will. But whenever you get or make an opportunity, do not think.

Addendum (January 12, 2016)

How right. As well as how straightforward. Behold the tersest and the most pertinent instruction ever put forward: “Do not think.” And yet, how very hard. As well as how remarkably tricky. As I am sitting alone in my beloved’s apartment and doing my best not to think, all sorts of thoughts keep popping up in my mind. Most of them are no more than scraps, but they are surprisingly persistent. And annoying. It takes an enormous effort to drive stray thoughts away for as few as five minutes. Whenever I manage to remain truly thoughtless for longer periods, I am overjoyed with my achievement, which brings thoughts back in no time. But the struggle is well worth it nevertheless. Each and every day I sit and stare in front of myself, I get ever-so-slightly better at not thinking at all. And that is all that counts. Wherever I find myself as of late, I keep reminding myself of my one and only goal: “Do not think.” How right, indeed. As well as how temptingly straightforward…