Yoga meditation: eliminating thoughts - impossible
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If you’re new to yoga meditation, you’ll be frustrated because it seems impossible for your mind to be still. It’s crowded with thoughts, and the more you try to eliminate those thoughts, the more tense you become. Meditation seems an impossible skill to learn.
However, the very fact that you even recognize the thoughts you’re having as THOUGHTS is an immense achievement. Most people identify with their thoughts completely: they just don’t recognize that their essential self is not their thoughts.
Just say “thinking”
Because it’s so difficult to recognize thoughts as thoughts, if you do recognize a thought, just say to yourself “thinking”. You’re labeling what’s going on in your mind.
“Thoughts on Thinking” says:
An old Chinese Zen Master once said, “Some of you are taking me literally when I say, ‘Don’t think,’ and you are making your minds like a rock. This is a cause of insentiency and an obstruction to the Way. When I say not to think, I mean that if you have a thought, think nothing of it.”
Read the complete article: it will help you to recognize that thinking is natural, impossible to eliminate, and is part of your meditation. You’ll stop taking your thoughts so seriously, and this is one of the rewards of yoga meditation.
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