HOW TO EXPERIENCE ‘A FEELING IS JUST A FEELING’

|Sweden Retreat 2019 Interviews Day 2 Group A (15:30-19:39)

Yogi: I have an attachment to the sitting posture because the sitting is the essence – the most beautiful and the most terrible, everything is in the sitting; I feel beyond everything.

Sayadaw: Whatever you experience in your sitting, instead of describing it to yourself, to just watch the feeling. Don’t name the feeling, just watch the feeling. Don’t give it a description, just watch the feeling – a feeling is just a feeling.

The feeling is an object – we can describe it in many ways, but that goes into the concepts; we want to get into the nature of what a feeling is.

So, when you sit and you feel this, just stay with the feeling. Recognize that the mind interprets, but don’t get attracted to the interpretations; stay with the feeling.

Can you do that?