The following talk was given at the Insight Meditation Center in Redwood City, California.

Please visit our website at audioderma.org. So now we continue now with the fourth talk on mindfulness of thinking. And thinking is an important

part of being a human being, and it's best not to be an

antagonistic relationship.

Though I know that for many people, their thinking is often a challenge get pulled into thoughts which

would you rather not have. And what keeps thoughts going is the interests that something in our system has for them.

The attachments to certain things, the resistance or the being

bothered by things, we are in a relationship with our thoughts that is feeding them, keeping them going.

And one of the things we can learn in meditation is if we are aware of them directly, fully, but we're not feeding them,

sometimes they go away really quickly. And some people get confused in meditation

when they do mindfulness

how quickly their thoughts will disappear

if they just note them and see them and recognize them.

And it's because when with the full, with the attention itself is not reactive, then we're not in a relationship

that's actively giving the food of attention to the thoughts.

And so this is where even if we have,

if we really dislike our thoughts and really trouble by them,

we don't want to be involved in them, all that attention of not wanting

and being aversive to them, that is actually fueling the thoughts more. It's like giving it more

attention to continue or may not the

particular content of the thoughts but the tendency of thinking is just getting

reinforced and so sooner or later it's very valuable

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