in other words, when you are in pain, do not
indulge yourself but rather look at the nature
of the mind experiencing this pain and try to
intensify and focus on its clarity. This is
similar to the technique used to eliminate mental
wandering in tantric visualisation meditations,
namely intensify the clarity of the visualisation
and extraneous mental activity disappears.

The Mahamudra
Eliminating the Ignorance of Darkness
by the Ninth Karmapa Wangchug Dorje
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