IMS Retreat 2012 Q&A Group B#1 (12:55-14:16)
Yogi: Can the storyline of our defilements such as greed or aversion be ever important?
Sayadaw: Any attention given to the story always only feeds the defilement that the story is about. If there is attention given to the story about attachment or aversion, that defilement will be fed.
In any thought process, the story is always part of the thought process; that is what the thought process is doing – it is generating the story.
And, what you want to do is to pay attention to the thought process rather than the story that it is generating.