Yogi: Most of the time the mind has wrong thoughts – a lot of useless chatter.
How to abandon them?
Sayadaw: You need to know your thoughts and you don’t simply believe them.
Yogi: But they keep on coming.
Sayadaw: You don’t follow – previously you do whatever the mind says, but not now.
Now you have awareness – when they come, you check before doing anything. Now, we try to be aware of our thoughts.
Yogi: Can I recollect blessings just to stop the chattering mind?
Sayadaw: Don’t try to stop the thoughts. It is wrong if you want to stop them. You just need to understand that thoughts are also an object.
If you know that thinking is happening, it means that you know the mind.
This is part of the meditation practice – so, there’s no need to complain about the thoughts because they are mental objects.
We use thoughts to better understand the mind. If you cannot watch thoughts objectively, then you cannot see what motivates the thoughts.
We just need to practice and not judge that thoughts are bad.