HOW TO CONTROL THOUGHTS OF YOUR MIND | TRY THIS TRICK | Buddhist story on meditation |

One day abroad, a man came to see him and said sir, my

mind

is very disturbed, many

thoughts

come in my

mind

all the time, please give me some Mantra to reduce the

thoughts

of the Mind. The Zen master looked at him and said, my friend, begin. By doing

meditation

every day, by doing it slowly, his mind will start to calm down, but the man said, sir, please don't tell me to do

meditation

. I can't do meditation because then I try to meditate and even more thoughts start to arise. My mind and most thoughts are negative, which makes my mind more restless.

The Zen master said, don't worry son, it happens in the initial stage of meditation, but by practicing meditation slowly and slowly

your

mind will start to calm down, but the man said. Sir, meditation is not my cup of tea. Please give me a mantra to calm my mind. The Zen master saw that

this

man was not going to understand like

this

and said, "Okay, if you insist, I will give you a mantra that can calm

your

mind." mind then whispered a mantra in his ear and said: you have to recite this Mantra sitting alone every day.

The man became very happy and said thank you teacher. I will surely recite this Mantra every day as I was about to return to leave Zen. The master said, but remember one thing, do not think of a monkey while reciting this mantra, otherwise the mantra will become ineffective. The man said sir, why would you think of a monkey? I've never thought about a monkey in my entire life, don't worry. and he left from there, the man returned home happily and sat down to recite the mantra while he started chanting the mantra. He remembered the words of the Jain master that he does not think of a monkey when he recites this mantra, as he remembered the words of The master images of the monkey began to come to his mind, he began to try to ignore the thoughts of the monkey, but the more he tried to ignore the monkeys, more monkeys began to come to his mind and after a while his mind was completely full of monkeys the man thought why the zen master gave me this instruction if he knew that the monkey was a problem then he should not have mentioned any other animal comes to mind and monkeys do not live the trapped man took a bath and changed into clean clothes and again settled in a room to chant mantra as soon as he closed his eyes.

Monk was warning him that they were all around him everywhere he looked, he saw monkeys at night. He even started seeing monkeys on the faces of his family members. The man was going. Angry, the more he tried to ignore the monkeys, the more monkeys came to mind in the morning. He was almost angry the next morning. He ran to Master Jen and told him everything and told him, sir, what kind of Mantra you had given me until yesterday. I have never thought about monkeys and now my mind is completely filled with thoughts about monkeys and the monkeys don't leave me even for a second, please help me and free my mind from these monkeys.

The Zen master said, "It's okay, just relax and stop reciting Mantra, don't do it." Whatever it was, the man sat down, relaxed, and stopped reciting the mantra. He was surprised that now he didn't think about the monkey. Everything returned to normal. Then the Zen master said, "You see, my friend. I just wanted to tell you about the nature of our mind. Never try to fight with it." your mind just like the more you press the more it will jump in the same way the more you try to suppress your mind the stronger it will become stronger stay calm, start observing the thoughts of the mind and you will find that your mind gradually Calm down automatically and to observe your mind you need to meditate.

If we see in our lives, we will find that our mind is like a monkey that keeps jumping here and there all the time without meaning. If you want to stop this monkey mind hard then you will not be able to do this the more you try to press its ping the more it will jump similarly the more you try to stop the thoughts from your mind the more those thoughts will come to your mind the expert says that a human mind creates 36,000 to 80,000 thoughts in a day, if you try to stop these thoughts hard, then you will not be able to stop them; instead, the same effort to stop them gives you energy, the same effort to avoid them becomes attention when you start avoiding something, you start paying too much attention to it, therefore there is no need to stop the thoughts, the only thing you have to do It is to observe your thoughts without any ties in our routine life, generally we cannot observe our thoughts, but in meditation you can do it easily, therefore, you need to practice meditation to witness your mind.

Some people experience that when they start meditating, more thoughts start coming to their minds, but the reason behind this is that when we start meditating, the old impressions hidden in our mind start to disappear. It bursts out like if you clean your house then all the garbage comes out similarly when you start meditating all the garbage of the mind starts coming out and you will start having more thoughts but you should not worry about it and keep observing your thoughts constantly . try and continue your meditation practice little by little, then all the garbage of the Mind will come out, then the Mind itself will start to calm down and you will start having less thoughts and with long practice you will surely be able to

control

your mind, thank you.