A. Don’t try in vain to enter the state free from thought. You are already there. The state free from thought in Buddhism doesn’t mean the state in which there arises no thought, no matter what you may see and hear, but the state in which you are not deluded by the thoughts coming to you when you see and hear things, through the realisation that everything, including your thoughts, is not real but empty, or illusionary.
The state of enjoying your thoughts without being deluded by them is referred to as the state free from thought.
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