Not "Empty" Enough

 People nowadays often speak of life as being "empty", but actually, I am convinced that the problem is quite the opposite:  there is often not enough emptiness in a person's life in today's world. By "emptiness", I do not refer to lack, but rather the abundance that comes from stillness: having a mind that is observing, not picking and choosing, and resting in the moment. Because I am fixated on trying to solve things "logically" (perhaps as a result of some school or academic training), I fail to see that too much logic can lead to a kind of dryness. It is as though one were trying to create a full life through one's thoughts. This never quite works out, no matter how brilliant one thinks their thoughts happen to be. People do not live simply on logic and thinking alone.
   When a person is feeling tense and vexed, their tendency might be to try to solve that tension through more thinking. The tension is posed as a problem that somehow needs resolving, and sooner or later it does feel like a problem because a person has made it that way. Problems arise from fixating on certain mental constructions, and taking those mental constructions to be "The Truth". Here, even as I am writing these lines, I can choose to think that this writing is "truth", when in fact it  is not really true at all! All that words can do is hint at certain kinds of experiences, but they in no way substitute for them.
   It's not to say that thinking is bad, but it's a reminder to be mindful when,after some period of sustained thinking or working out possible solutions, that one might experience a sense of deflation or disappointment. This is because, no matter how lofty or precise one's thinking is, one can never live in those solutions. One is always living in a dream, where thoughts are only temporary signposts. The only thing one can do at that point is to let go of hope for ultimate answers in the form of intellect and thinking.