Farm stones no matter the situation . <| sep |> This is my understanding , and I think that rereading stage 4 , especially the grey box on page 122 will make you agree with me . Subtle distraction is a distraction while the meditation object typically the breath is still the main attention , or the forefront of awareness . Gross distraction means that the distraction has taken over as the main object of your attention , but the meditation object is still in awareness . It is there in the background , still not completely forgotten . Forgetting means that the meditation object has now dropped from awareness and the distraction has completely taken over andMind wandering means that we are jumping from object to object while the breath still out of awareness .