Tibetan Buddhism from the Ground up, Wisdom (1993).
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The point of Buddhist meditation is not to stop thinking, for … cultivation of insight clearly requires intelligent use of thought and discrimination. What needs to be stopped is conceptualisation that is compulsive, mechanical and unintelligent, that is, activity that is always fatiguing, usually pointless, and at times seriously harmful.

— Alan Wallace

What It Means

This is a placeholder explanation generated by the low-overhead model. It interprets "The point of Buddhist meditation is not to stop thinking, for … cultivation of insight clearly requires intelligent use of thought and discrimination. What needs to be stopped is conceptualisation that is compulsive, mechanical and unintelligent, that is, activity that is always fatiguing, usually pointless, and at times seriously harmful." in the context of "Tibetan Buddhism from the Ground up, Wisdom (1993)." to mean that wisdom is timeless.

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Alan Wallace

About Alan Wallace

B. Alan Wallace (born 1950) (Tibetan) Buddhist scholar and writer, PhD. Tibetan translator.