DEFILEMENT WANTS TO KNOW WHAT’S OUTSIDE; WISDOM WANTS TO KNOW WHAT’S INSIDE

| Shwe Oo Min Dhammasukha Tawya 2018 English Interviews 180220 (42:28-43:28)

Defilement wants to know what is outside; wisdom wants to know what is inside. So, you need to be curious about what’s happening inside, in the mind.

(Yogi: How to cut off from the outside world to stay inside the mind because we have to go to work and meet people?)

You need to be more interested in the mind process – what the mind is thinking and doing. We face the world outside together with the mind, and we’re knowing the mind as we interact with the outside world.

So, you need to be more skillful in how to watch the mind; and practice all the time, asking what the mind is doing. What is the mind knowing? What is the mind practicing?

Always check the mind all the time because the mind is also happening all the time in daily life.