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During meditation I often notice myself thinking about memories or events that have happened or things I have to do or want to do.

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Is it best to pursue the thoughts while acknowledging them?

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You don't gain so much, even if it's something that you have to do.

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You really don't gain much from thinking about it.

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It's best not to pursue the thoughts.

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It's best to let the thoughts come and then be mindful of them.

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That's the best you can do.

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It will change your life.

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It will change your course.

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It will change the course of your work and so on.

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It will help you in many ways.

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Certainly the things that have happened before, there's not much benefit that comes from, well there's very little benefit and much potential detriment to thinking too much about them.

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So it's certainly best not to pursue the thoughts.

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And not much benefit ever comes from pursuing thoughts.

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thoughts are best left alone left to come up and acknowledged and let let them go without allowing the craving and the desire to continue

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Even in a work sense, I don't see much benefit that comes from thinking and planning and so on.

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It may seem that sometimes you do have to plan, but the best work doesn't come from planning.

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It comes from mindful processing.

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So letting the thoughts come up and then acting on them or writing them down or working them out.

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And they should just come by themselves without any pursuit or any worrying or any cultivating.