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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
 
      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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+