Hmmm. I think you both missed my point. Sorry to not be clear. Let me try it this way:
Buddhist Practice, like many Eastern Philosophies, is about dropping dualities ... me vs. you, right vs. wrong, left vs. right, problems and answers, up vs. down. One attains a realm transcendent of all such categories and oppositions. There is no "up vs. down" ... just a Wholeness which sweeps all such in. One comes to know this on the Zafu, sitting Zazen, where we drop all thoughts, analysis, categories, personal aversions and attractions. What remains is that Wholeness. We come to experience that this Wholeness which is transcendant of "me vs. you, right and wrong, problems and answers, up and down" exists simultaneously in and AS this world of "me and you, rights and wrongs, problems and answers, ups and downs".
So, when we "pick up a thought" ... simultaneously one tastes a realm transcendent of thought and "up and down".
When on "puts down a thought" ... simultaneously one tastes a realm transcendent of thought and "up and down".
Something like that. Clear as mud?
Gassho, J