How to get over thoughts during meditation?

Coming thoughts in meditation is natural, don’t fight with them, and don’t try to stop them. We do meditation to solve the thoughts and to set them free from the mind. If the thoughts are coming, let them come – they will come as in boiling water all the impurities come at surface. So getting over with thoughts doesn’t mean to fight with them – it means, to realize them, understand them and let them go!

Thoughts come in variety of forms, some thoughts comes "intermittently" and go away, some thoughts are "fixed" don’t go away and some totally "unrelated" thoughts come intermittently or in fixed form to which we think why they are coming – we never did this and we never met with these kinds of people, places and situations.

We just knew three types of thoughts, but it is better not to give them any label because it will create another thought, isn’t it? So, the problem is how to go beyond thoughts by solving them.

There are solutions that we can consider:

Never, ever fight with thoughts – resistance will produce another thought.

Understand that thoughts are limited in themselves; they are the outcome of limited memory, and incomplete experience.

Whenever a thought comes watch it start to finish, if you leave it incomplete, it will come again.

Witness the thoughts like as we witness the floating clouds, the clean sky between the clouds is thoughtlessness, and we need to go in this clean sky.

We should be happy if deep rooted thoughts are coming to us, our mind will be clean from the roots.

Make it a game to witness the thoughts, watching them coming and going like occasional breeze touching your face.

Yet, mind is inside us, merged in us, but we are neither mind nor the thoughts and we can watch them from the distance – very clearly.

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