During meditation I often notice myself thinking about memories or events that have happened or things I have to do or want to do.
Is it best to pursue the thoughts while acknowledging them?
You don't gain so much, even if it's something that you have to do.
You really don't gain much from thinking about it.
It's best not to pursue the thoughts.
It's best to let the thoughts come and then be mindful of them.
That's the best you can do.
It will change your life.
It will change your course.
It will change the course of your work and so on.
It will help you in many ways.
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.
So it's certainly best not to pursue the thoughts.
And not much benefit ever comes from pursuing thoughts.
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
Even in a work sense, I don't see much benefit that comes from thinking and planning and so on.
It may seem that sometimes you do have to plan, but the best work doesn't come from planning.
It comes from mindful processing.
So letting the thoughts come up and then acting on them or writing them down or working them out.
And they should just come by themselves without any pursuit or any worrying or any cultivating.