Mind-wandering during meditation isn't failure; noticing it is the practice itself. The Tibetan term "gom" means becoming familiar with your own thoughts so you can intentionally direct them. Without that awareness, you can't change your behavior or your life.
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it's totally normal for your mind to go off and that's not a failed meditation at all. No. Yeah. In fact, if you notice it, if you notice your mind going off, that's part of the meditation itself. Mm-hmm. Remember in class we talked about, now 10 years ago, do you remember 10 years ago we talked about the word gom, G-O-M. Gom. In Tibetan. G-O-M is, it just means meditation in Tibetan, but it really means getting familiar with your mind, your thoughts. So when you said before, like how you would notice your thoughts racing, that's even beyond the general non-noticing of thoughts, right? Like you're already starting to notice your thoughts. So the more you familiar you get with your thoughts, then you can direct it, right? Cuz if you don't, if you're not familiar, if you don't even notice where your thoughts are, then you, there's no chance of directing it. Right.