Impure Thoughts: Fleeting, Not Frightening
Do you want to know the fundamental difference between an impure thought whose source is you, and an impure thought whose source is the devil? Watch your heart carefully. If the impure thought is sudden, attacking you abruptly without prelude and without warning, smile and tell the enemy: "You have missed the target." But if the impure thought has developed from another thought that preceded it, coming clearly from memory, then know that you are the source of this thought. Here, smile and say with the courage of faith: "I have left and abandoned that past." Do not be alarmed lest you fall into despair, and do not fail if this thought assails you a thousand times; for the thought is linked to other thoughts. Therefore, try to seize the mother that gives birth, and do not chase the little child. And the mother here may be a bodily pleasure, a past experience you still love, or a deed you performed in your past life that you still boast about... Here, remorse is the remedy, and genuine sorrowful weeping overcomes this desire and kills the mother, so she does not give birth to this troublesome child.

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