20200209 We also use some (skillful) thoughts for practice // Sayadaw U Tejaniya‘s Dhamma Interview (6:25-7:21) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jv66wwnQF2Y&feature=share...
Yogi: The thoughts keep on coming – can I inject right thinking to stop them?
Sayadaw: Only if you have some understanding. If you have some wisdom – your mind understands something – then, you can apply right thought.
That is why, we ask beginners to apply second-hand knowledge – you listen to what we say and you start to think this way and practice.
Much later, the mind understands that this is the right way.
It takes time – the mind cannot change in the short term.
Yogi: Sometimes the thoughts just continue.
Sayadaw: You then let the thoughts be – they do their job and you just do yours.