Stop the mind?

The thinking process of the mind works in two ways. It allows us to maneuver through life by working with and identifying our experiences through our senses and it functions in response to sensations in the present moment as they are happening. The thinking process is also what is used to figure out situations in the present moment such as when we are working with something or just simply doing worldly things. Everything outside of this can be explained as being a story. A story about the past or the future. These are called stories because it is not real. They are memories and fabrications.

When concentrated there will not be a story. The thinking process continues to happen, also during  meditation, and this is fine. We are not trying to stop the mind from thinking. We are to learn how to catch our mental activity when we are caught up in the story. If caught up in a story, we are not meditating. This is all apart of the mental fixing that we should not be doing when in meditation.


Nice story- The restaurant at the end of the universe by Douglas Adams:

http://aufbix.org/~bolek/download/guide2.pdf