How to Look After the Mind When Mindfulness Is Weak

Ajahn Dtun

Published 24 Jan 202201:26Short Teaching

About This Teaching

Ajahn Dtun is asked how to drop thoughts and emotions quickly when mindfulness is still weak and keeps following them.

His answer is that a weak mind needs frequent practice of concentration, because that is how the mind is made strong. He compares it to someone who wants a strong body and therefore exercises or plays sport. Once the mind has been strengthened through concentration, he says, it stops chasing after its thoughts.