Question The six patriarch said, it's way known, do not think any good or bad at all. To have no thoughts about good or bad surely is the essential point of sitting meditation. What are little thoughts and big thoughts? Daikku Do not think any good or bad at all. Are words that cut directly. Not only in sitting meditation, are they to be applied. If you reach this state, walking, standing, sitting and lying down, are all meditation. There's no need to cling to the form of sitting. An ancestor said, walking is also meditation, sitting is also meditation. Speaking silent, active or still. The body is at rest. The mind is at rest. And then back to daikku, one of the Buddha's discourses says, we are always in it, walking around, sitting and lying down. Little thoughts are thoughts that suddenly arise about what is before you. Big thoughts are thoughts of things like greed, hatred, folly, false views, conceit, jealousy and. Name and fame, profit and support. When sitting in meditation, those whose wills are weak may keep back little thoughts, but such thoughts as these, the big ones, these, these afflictions, will remain unaware in their mind, giving up these bigger thoughts these notions, is called directly cutting off the root source. When you cut off the root source, afflictions become enlightenment. Delusion becomes wisdom, the three poisons become the three bodies of pure discipline, ignorance becomes the objective reality of great knowledge. Need we even speak of little thoughts.