murphythecat
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in the beginning of each moment 
one simply need to know at all time his state of mind. Just ask yourself, what am I doing? thinking about the past, the future, craving, remembering, judging negatively, having ressentments about the past? ect. One need to always be mindful of his thoughts if he has thoughts. ideally, its much calmer to focus solely on the body and the sensations that arise right now but if you have thoughts, you need to know its content and replace the negative with the positive because you realize quite fast that any negative thoughts makes you uncomfortable and stresses oneself so tis a bit useless to maintain negative thoughts.
if his mind is encouraging unwholesome thoughts about the past or the future, one need to encourage himself to stop that non sense negativity and go back to the present moment.
you cannot think and be in the present moment as the experience of the present moment is much faster then thoughts and well with thought, we judge and try to define but when you are mindful, you experience without judgments the present moment which is mainly calm and peaceful.
but this is a practice and its a bit hard in the beginning but like everything, with practice, it becomes habitual and not difficult, it bceomes second nature almost.
the 4 great efforts concerning mindfulness of thoughts are:
avoid unwholesome thoughts
being able to maintain a wholesome thought
replace a unwholesome thoughts that arise with a wholesome thoughts
to stop a unwholesome thoughts that hasnt yet arised
basically "avoiding," "overcoming," "developing," and "maintaining,"
this is the beginning...

one simply need to know at all time his state of mind. Just ask yourself, what am I doing? thinking about the past, the future, craving, remembering, judging negatively, having ressentments about the past? ect. One need to always be mindful of his thoughts if he has thoughts. ideally, its much calmer to focus solely on the body and the sensations that arise right now but if you have thoughts, you need to know its content and replace the negative with the positive because you realize quite fast that any negative thoughts makes you uncomfortable and stresses oneself so tis a bit useless to maintain negative thoughts.
if his mind is encouraging unwholesome thoughts about the past or the future, one need to encourage himself to stop that non sense negativity and go back to the present moment.
you cannot think and be in the present moment as the experience of the present moment is much faster then thoughts and well with thought, we judge and try to define but when you are mindful, you experience without judgments the present moment which is mainly calm and peaceful.
but this is a practice and its a bit hard in the beginning but like everything, with practice, it becomes habitual and not difficult, it bceomes second nature almost.
the 4 great efforts concerning mindfulness of thoughts are:
avoid unwholesome thoughts
being able to maintain a wholesome thought
replace a unwholesome thoughts that arise with a wholesome thoughts
to stop a unwholesome thoughts that hasnt yet arised
basically "avoiding," "overcoming," "developing," and "maintaining,"
this is the beginning...
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