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@@ -43650,3 +43650,20 @@ for the ways in which your tradition has come down to you with so much care.   
      to Finding Certainty Beyond Belief and Doubt", published by Shambhala
      Publications
 
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+If we are attached to a thought, it becomes an obstacle to the development of
+our meditation or samadhi.  The remedies for reducing attachments to thoughts
+are called “pacification” and “taming the mind,” which involve what to
+do when we are unwilling to let go of thoughts.  Normally we regard thoughts,
+and especially certain thoughts, as either particularly important or
+particularly pleasant and therefore worthwhile or entertaining.  However, in
+meditation, thoughts are nothing other than impediments to what we are trying
+to do.  So, when we are practicing meditation, we have to maintain the
+attitude, “This is my time to meditate and now I am not trying to think
+thoughts.  If I let myself think, I am wasting this time I have to practice.”
+
+  ##--#Khenchen Thrangu, from "The Mahamudra Lineage Prayer: A Guide to
+Practice", published by Shambhala Publications
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+