Anyone who has ever tried to meditate knows how hard it is to control thoughts. The mind isn't naturally under any form of control. It's all tendrils and roots and vines and tangents and spirals and loops and mystery.
Logic trains minds to operate in a closed system of syllogisms and algorithms. Assuming that the founding principles, which logic can't prove, have some bearing on reality. And assuming too that tangential connections, feeling-towardsness, emotional resonance and the like are irrational - and thus excluded.
Meditation trains minds to be still. Accept. Let go. Don't predict. Don't judge.
So it's like this - logic carves a canal and says that the water can only go this way, along here; meditation is the letting the water go anywhere while kind of being still somewhere and letting it flow.
I guess what we normally do is think we 'are' the water and just cheerfully - or miserably - carve a course anywhich way where - occasionally getting dammed and occasionally flooding, without much control but with a feeling of freedom that is totally not free.
How else? To be the land and the water at the same time?
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