The Impossibility of Stopping Your Mind

The key is to understand that we are not our thoughts. We're constantly believing what we think because we're like, oh well if I'm thinking it must be true. Even the most dedicated monks and Buddhists who meditate constantly, they're still thinking. You literally cannot stop your mind. But what they're capable of doing is embracing the idea that they are not their thoughts. They are allowing their thoughts to be separate from them.