“When you come here to Nong Paa Pong Monastery, there are roads crossing your way. But they don’t matter. You simply go past them, because you don’t want them. The same with all the preoccupations in the world: We want the mind to quiet down but then we bring in disturbing preoccupations to stir it up again. If we understand that they’re simply roads to pass by, we pass them by without paying them any attention. That’s what it means to cut preoccupations away. For example, “When the mind is quiet, what will it know? What will it see?” Cut those thoughts away. They simply clutter up your path.”