Remove the obstructions to THINKING. Being mindful requires that you work IN A DISCIPLINED FASHION at ridding your mind of desire, anger, hate, jealousy and negative barriers. You are designed to THINK ... but if you think wrong, think STUPID or allow your thinking to be driven by desire, pride, jealousy or hate ... you cannot possibly THINK ... your mind will be incapable of more elegant, more beautiful and certainly more sophisticated and complex thought.