#platform/youtube #channel/Master-YongHua #playlist/dharma-seeds  Primarily the way the ordinary people function is that our thoughts are uncontrollable right introllable because if one follows another and another this is what we do all day long is to think and think and think incessantly. Okay. Chan says it doesn't have to be that way. You can learn to cultivate your thoughts to control your thoughts and govern your thoughts if you will. And this is what chan is about. Buddhist meditation uh in particular Mayana meditation is how to control your thoughts. For us in the west, it's a foreign concept because we thought that you know thought is something where there we're victims of our thoughts. We really have no control our thoughts. So what kind of control we talking about? The ultimate control in China is put an end to your thoughts which is not possible for ordinary