reflections on reflections

fletcher: one who makes arrows [Middle English fleccher, from Old French flechier, from fleche, arrow, of Germanic origin]

fleche: arrow
re-flect (re-fleche): to send an arrow into again

The first arrow is flection. Just arrow, no stance, no target.
The second arrow is a re-flection .
The first arrow is pure experience, without-thinking.
The second arrow is re-flection on that experience, thinking.

A third arrow, aimed at the second arrow, is designed for its downfall.
This third arrow is not-thinking, sometimes confused with without-thinking.
Not-thinking is a re-flection on the re-flection, a re-re-flection.

Some folk sit and meditate and think. Shooting those arrows.
Some folk sit and meditate and not-think. Shooting arrows at the arrows.
Neither of these is meditation.

Meditation is without-thinking.