What next?

Can the mind be freed from thoughts?
This, Krishnamurti's Zen Koan or mondo.
This, the burning ball of fire you carry in your belly,
When I stand and face my Maker during my solats and declare my intention,
This is the veil that stands between me and Him. 
Can the Mind be free of thoughts?

All these years of Blogging is nothing more than looking an answer to this mind boggling  yet simple question depending on how much interest one have in such matters as Zen Koans and mind boggling and so forth. This mind tripper is practiced in many forms all over the world from the time of man; it is a form of meditation practice. The Master taps his disciple's bald head and yelled at him out of the blue, the poor disciple jarred out of his wits almost threw him off the cushion where he was nodding off into la la land. The Master tripped the discople's wandering mind into returning to the here and now. This takes place during a one on one meeting with the Roshi happens. It could take minutes, hours or days, depending on the Roshi's mood.
There is never the right answer, nor the wrong, there is nothing to grasp on to that right or wrong;it is a sickness of the mind. Sometimes during a period of sitting meditation in the Zendo or meditation hall, a priest would be walking silently behind you, in his hands he grips a long flat stick like a Kaishakunin standing behind ready to take your head off. The purpose of having this discipline is not only to keep meditators awake but also to change the channel in the sitter's mind. It is also a means to awaken the senses back into the now as the sheering pain from the whack of th e stick when delivered with expertise and loving kindness can send shockwaves of electrical  energies to various vital organ throughout the body. The body that has been sitting motionless for hours is given a rude awakening and all thoughts of pain and pleasure evaporates and the poor sod is back into his empty space; the silence of the Mind.