IF YOU DON’T UNDERSTAND DEFILEMENTS, YOU CAN NEVER ESCAPE FROM THEM
Yogi: Because of these 6 sense doors, I have fear, trauma, good feelings, bad feelings, etc.
Sayadaw: You should not try to get out of these defilements from the 6 sense doors. You should stay with the defilements. If you don’t understand your defilements, you can never escape from them. (Elsewhere: If the defilement objects disappear, how can the mind learn? The mind needs to experience the defilements again and again to learn.)
Now, you want to get out – it means that the mind rejects the experience. Because of anger, you can never escape. If you stay there and realize everything about it, then you can get out.
Now, you don’t know everything about the defilements, you cannot escape.