Reddit reviews Out of Your Mind: Tricksters, Interdependence, and the Cosmic Game of Hide and Seek
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One does not "prevent" thoughts. Thoughts happen, the more you want to control them the more they pop up, kind of like trying to hold your breath. The more you hold it the more you need to let it go.
How to cope with them then? Well, it helps not judging those thoughts. Don't classify them as good or bad. And don't identify yourself as "the generator of all thoughts".
The only way to miss something is to ignore the present moment, and instead think of the past and future. If you live now, you will never miss anything.
Instead of writing a block of text, I think it's worth you check out The Power of Now by Eckart Tolle -- If you want, I can try and elaborate on this but I think Eckhart Tolle can ellaborate it simply and better than me.
If you don't like his "spiritual" style and prefer something more academic, then maybe Alan Watts fits you better.
All in all they both say the same things. Just relax and let it be. Like breathing, the more control you want to have, the more you lose it.
Excerpt from the OP
>So, how can an individual realize that they are the universal self? In what way can a person who is under the impression that they are a separate individual enclosed in a bag of skin effectively realize that they are Brahman? This, of course, is a curious question. It proposes a journey to the place where you already are. Now, it’s true that you may not know that you are there, but you are. And if you take a journey to the place where you are, you will visit many other places than the place where you are, and perhaps when you find through some long experience that all the places you go to are not the place you wanted to find, it may occur to you that you were already there in the beginning. And that is the Dharma, or “method,” as I prefer to translate the word. That’s the method that all gurus and spiritual teachers fundamentally use. So, they are all tricksters, but in the most beneficent sense of the word trickster. [Source](https://www.amazon.com/Out-Your-Mind-Tricksters-Interdependence-ebook/dp/B01N78BJEF/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1495554527&sr=1-1&keywords=9781622037537
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