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Getting rid of recurring thoughts and mental patterns || Acharya Prashant, Psychology Summit (2023)
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Description

Acharya Prashant explains that one should not seek a solution for existing mental patterns, as focusing on them only provides more energy and respect to the cycle of suffering. Instead of trying to fix petty thoughts, one must involve the mind with a higher plane of thought or an object so tremendously important that it cannot be ignored. He emphasizes that the mind cannot remain empty; it requires solid and pure content. Therefore, one must give themselves something worth living and dying for to crowd out nonsense and random desires.