“If you pay attention to stray thoughts, you can be pushed away from your practice.”

The Teaching of Ajahn Suchart.

21stAugust, 2022

“If you pay attention to stray thoughts, you can be pushed away from your practice.”

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Question (M): During meditation, when a stray thought comes in, for instance, an urge which makes me not wanting to meditate.

Than Ajahn: You just have to keep focusing on your mantra, or on your meditation object. Don’t let anything interfere with your concentration.

Just keep on concentrating. Focusing on one object. Keep reciting the mantra, Buddho, Buddho, Buddho. 

Disregard everything else.

If you pay attention to stray thoughts, you can become emotionally involved and then you might be distracted and be pushed away from your practice. But if you keep concentrating on your meditation object, such as your mantra, then eventually, the stray thoughts will disappear.

Youtube: “Dhamma in English, Dec 9, 2018.”

By Ajahn Suchart Abhijāto
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