“Seeing is not thinking. The sun rises there… if you think about it, you miss it. Because while you are thinking about it, you are going away from it. and in thinking you can move miles away; and thoughts go faster than anything possible. If you are seeing the sunrise, then one thing has to be certain: that you are not thinking about it. Only then you can see it. Thinking becomes a veil on the eyes. it gives its own color, its own idea to the reality. It does not allow reality to reach you, it imposes itself upon reality. It is a deviation from reality. Hence, no philosopher has ever been able to know the truth. All philosophers have bee thinking about the truth. But thinking about the truth is an impossibility. Either you know it, or you don’t. If you know it there is no need to think about. If you don’t, how can you think about it?”
-OSHO
To see things without thinking about them or judging them is a difficult task indeed. Many find themselves unable to, and many more never even try. But this is the root of meditation: being in the now, in this moment; taking it in fully without thinking about it. I myself have what some would call a rather nervous constitution, and it’s because I am constantly thinking about things and making judgments about them. This is good for me, this is not. Worse yet is judging that which has yet to come: this may be good for me, but it may not. To overcome this constant analysis of everything is what has drawn me to meditation. To just be in reality, and set my thoughts aside. To just sit, or just walk, or just work. To just relax!