about thought control

["votangreen" <votangreen@...>]

Dear Rawn!

I read the comments about thought control (IIH ME nr 1.). 
Now I am more confused than ever. :-)
I have been meditation ect off and on for about 10 years so when I 
close my eyes to do something most thoughts go away very quickly.
But the Bardon way..remembering the thoughts, not just let them go 
and dissapear, that is a lot more difficult for me.  

Now I got the Ruggeberg edition and Bardon says that one should 
remember what has passed in the mind during the sitting. "...make an 
attempt to remember these thoughts..." and later: "...The attentive 
student...so that it will be difficult for him to remember all of 
them." 
I wouldn´t call it active memorizing more "recalling" or something 
as I understand it.

I get it that the excercise ought to be a prep for the coming ones 
and therefor the main points of the excercise ought to be as you 
state in the comments. As I read Mistele´s comment on the excercise 
it seems to go along with the remembering part as well.

If it is a prep for the coming empty mind, why try to recall or 
remember the thoughts? To me it seems easier to just drop the 
attention of them? 
Om the other hand remember/recalling them is challenging and just a 
little practice gives a lot of useful "rewards".

Help me sort this out once and for all.

Respectfully
//Johannes