quoted from 'The Teaching Stories of Grand Master Wei Chueh'
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One of the monks was troubled with his wandering thoughts. Not knowing how to deal with them, he had no peace and asked the Grand Master what to do.
The Grand Master said, "Thoughts come, and thoughts go. Just ignore them. Like a bouncing ball, if you don't hit it, it won't bounce."
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To add to the message of the story above, I quote from an abstract of Zen meditation "Repelling wandering thoughts is like bouncing a ball-the harder you try, the greater the force it bounces back. The right way of dealing with wandering thoughts is to ignore them."
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