Yogi: In the first meditation this morning, I felt tense and uncomfortable. I noticed that the mind was grouchy and beneath that, I saw sadness.
The very moment that I saw sadness, the body just relaxed and turned comfortable. I asked myself how the body could react that fast to something I realized.
Sayadaw: Really, when awareness and insight happen, it is like magic. One moment of awareness and that wisdom comes, it clears the defilement.
When the awareness becomes very full and powerful, then when the wisdom arises, the wisdom is also very powerful and complete, and it sees very clearly.
This sort of magic is very useful in life, but we have to train the mind to be aware a lot.
When we train the mind a lot and something happens, we know it immediately and the moment we know it, it is resolved. The sooner the mind sees it, the more quickly the defilement gets resolved.
This is some advertising. (Joking)
We have to have years of practice. When you practice that hard, it becomes easy; but if you practice easy, it stays hard.
You saw what happened this morning. It was a small defilement and you have had years of practicing and also the amount of practice at this retreat, it was easy – one moment and it was gone. That much practice can deal with that much defilement.
This practice has to be that much bigger to deal with much bigger defilements.
If you had not been mindful and you had not noticed that little sadness, it might have bothered you the whole day, right?