Yes, that’s another great meditation technique for sure, but not the one I’m advocating for in this post. This post is an intermediate exercise for people who can’t get there as easily as you.

Rather, in *this* exercise, the goal is to bring your focus directly onto the thinking process itself, examining it in the moment that it arises. The next step, which I didn’t write (because I didn’t want to write too much this morning), is to draw your attention sharply on onto the thought and then momentarily turn your attention onto the source of the thinking, if you can find one.

Is there a source, or is there just an experience of thinking? If you think you found a source, isn’t that just another creation of your thoughts? There’s actually nothing there.

By bringing your focus directly onto thoughts, you watch them unravel into nothing. Metaphorically, thoughts are just the running programs of your body-mind’s operating system.

The idea here is to see, first hand, that the mind is just a functioning organ like any other. The liver makes bile, the body-mind makes thoughts. Acknowledge this, and you don’t need to take them as seriously. You don’t need to indulge them. They aren’t necessarily real or true. They are just a process and you are experiencing them.