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"The Power of Now" discusses the harms of thinking, stating that only in the present can one find peace. Does this contradict the idea that "thinking is happiness"? The ambiguity of language is full of nuances; what is thinking? What is thought? The definitions are not quite the same. In "thinking is happiness," this thinking refers to the broadest form of mental activity. Even in so-called "enlightenment," the brain is always at work; how can one be "empty"? Perhaps one thinks they are empty, but from an objective standpoint, the brain is always functioning, and that is thinking. Thinking is happiness; in fact, existence is happiness. Because thought itself is an uninterrupted release of the instinct to survive, it stimulates us regardless of pain; any kind of stimulus hides happiness. Because of pain, there is existence; because of existence, there is happiness. Life itself is happiness. The power of now does not exclude thinking. What moment is not the present? Eating, drinking, all are moments of now. Even overthinking is a moment of now. We just need to realize that this is a moment of now. Thinking, of course, is also a moment of now. "Sailing a tiny boat across the vastness of uncertainty." This is the state of thinking.