ON DEALING WITH DISTRACTION
"There are lots of ways for dealing with distraction. One is just to catch yourself wandering off and bring yourself back. Another way is to reflect on the drawbacks of that distraction. If you kept thinking in that direction, where would it take you? Is that where you want to go? Or if the distraction is really insistent, tell yourself, “Okay the distraction can stay there in the background if it wants to, but I’m going to stay here with the breath in the foreground.” Consciously ignore it. Don’t get involved. It’s like a glob of tar. If you even try to push yourself away, you get stuck. Some thoughts are like that.
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Other thoughts involve tension in the body. When you detect that it’s tense to think in that way, just relax the tension associated with the thought and it’ll go away..."
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Thanissaro Bhikkhu
Excerpt from "Skillful Thinking"
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You can read the complete talk here:
https://www.dhammatalks.org/Archive/Writings/CrossIndexed/Uncollected/0109n1b1%20Skillful%20Thinking.pdf
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