How can we be cautious about not indulging in something without constantly thinking about it?

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So So On one side we may say If I just keep thinking of not doing it That will end up I will end up doing it because the desire will come out But then we also have to be aware Of the We have to be aware that I have to give this up So I will give you two examples Say if I have got a I had a shoulder pain a few days ago As soon as I put weight on the hand It suddenly causes pain Now if I am constantly going to think I have got a shoulder pain Then I am going to be miserable I have to think about other things And I have to go on doing what I can Even with the shoulder pain But then on the occasions when I have to get up At that time I have to be aware I have this pain in the shoulder I cannot put weight on the shoulder So that awareness Has to be there so that When that pain can get aggravated I don’t aggravate it By the same time It is not that I have to constantly think about it By constantly thinking about it I increase my misery If I don’t think about it at all Then also I put weight on it And I cause misery to myself So in that sense the awareness has to be there But we could say The constant awareness or the obsession It will be there So like that if I have a particular Like if an alcoholic is there Now This is the office, this is the home And there is a bar in between Which the alcoholic has always frequented Now If the alcoholic is going to pass by that Then the desire is going to come And The craving will become stronger Sometimes Alcoholics are also told I am using the example of alcohol Because one of my friends Is a counsellor An alcoholic anonymous And I found many of the principles that they talk about Apply to us also In our particular conditionings So they say that You may need to take a longer route Some other route Don’t go by that bar Even if it takes more time Avoid it So we have to be aware of The weakness that we have And we have to make sure That we don’t aggravate it So just Constant contemplation on it Can aggravate it But just Indiscriminate recklessness Can also aggravate it So the balance will be That we become aware of the triggers The situations where that weakness That anartha may get aggravated And we avoid those We avoid those Situations But we don’t focus On just no no I won’t do this I won’t do that Focus on something positive So as I said we use our intelligence here To understand why this lower taste is lower So at that time also To some extent we have to think about it But this is we are thinking When we are in the mood of goodness Using scripture as our guide So at that time we are basically Equipping ourselves To say no Whenever The impulse arises So we definitely need to Think about it adequately enough So that we have the reasoning So that we have the intellectual Resources to say no When the impulse arises But we don’t have to be Thinking about it constantly Does it answer the question?