[layman]

Thanks for the responses Lal and Tien.

I definitely am open-minded on the rebirth process, and practicing Satipatthana has helped me a lot already. I’ll keep it up while also putting in effort to see the anicca nature of this life.

[layman]

So vaci sankhara can be more specifically defined in terms of vitakka and vicara right? Then the key to stopping a certain thought is to stop the vicara, then vitakka, then apply vitakka to another thought.
I’ve had worries about not being able to do it right but I realize those worries are also just thoughts to stop.

[layman]

Thanks for your reply.
I didn’t think just suppressing my thoughts would work but after a few hours it has worked well. I’d been having intrusive thoughts and now I don’t let them come up.
If I keep it up I hope the part about “He thinks whatever thought he wants to, and doesn’t think whatever thought he doesn’t.” will be true with practice.

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