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Your thoughts are not the problem. Your attachment to them is the problem.

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Is there success in meditation?

The term meditation can mean just about anything. Yes, you can silence thoughts, but that's basically a trance state, which has little value. There's a famous line that the great master Tilopa said to…

r/Meditationcomment4/8/2026
Letting go of LUST

There's a famous quote from the Tantric master Tilopa to his disciple Naropa: "Your thoughts are not the problem. Your attachment to them is the problem." People often think they need to eliminate de…

r/Meditationcomment3/9/2026
How do I just observe my thoughts without letting them affect me?

If you actually see a thought, it dissolves. The process of watching thoughts go by is an abstraction. When you see the thought it's gone. So then there's a new thought generated about how I'm watchin…

r/Meditationcomment3/17/2026