IMS Retreat 2012 Q&A Group D No.1 (16:40-18:14)
Yogi: The physical pain is wrapped around the emotional pain. It’s hard for me to separate the aversion as an object – they feel lumped together.
Sayadaw: Don’t try to separate all the different feelings. Just know that this is a feeling –
an unpleasant feeling, an unhappy feeling – and stay with that.
If you find it difficult to continuously watch that difficult feeling, alternate with a neutral physical object like the breath – the breath and the feeling, the breath and the feeling.
It doesn’t have to be the breath – any object that is neutral, obvious, strong and easy to observe to keep your attention will do.