Me neither. It's to keep my sanity intact, to do this. I see something, I can't simply take it at face value. I want to probe further, and peel back the layers. I don't see why this would make one stuck. Thanks Ian.
There is a tendacy toward self-deception that one can slip into and the tendancy to live from the head. Which is probably what most of the whoey is about. I shouldn't call it whoey cause the trap is very real, but to not use the mind to its full potential seems a waist to me. Problem is not many are taught, learn, or are will to make the effort to learn how to use it properly. There is pondering, analytical meditation, active imagining and more. It can be beneficial to slow the mind or stop it temporarily, which is what most people on this type of forum discuss. And, it can also be beneficial to speed it up and make it do acrobatics. Then there is the path of questioning everything that leads to an emptiness of mind. And, then there is solid and central reasoning, the possition of doubtlessness, that was mentioned in another thread.
Often as I understand it proper mental work involves a combination of the mental and emotional bodies, or mental and feeling. And, the deeper we go the more of our total being is put into use. Most important is that it is active or deliberate mentation.
But, the center of our beingness, for self-presence, is not in the mind, but firmly in the body. This does not stop us from using our heads.