Yogi: I can notice the experience, but am unsure about noticing the awareness. I keep trying, but sometimes the patience is really low.
Sayadaw: It is not necessary to be aware of the awareness. It’s not a goal; it’s just the description of the path.
Never practice with an idea that it should be a certain way that is not now. Don’t think that it should get somewhere because I’m doing that now; there’s not future to the practice, just now.
Don’t even think you’re going to sit one hour; one hour hasn’t come yet.
Once we decide to sit a hour, we’ve already created a future and decided how it is going to be; and we stress ourselves if we think we’re not going to finish the hour.
Yogi: Yes, when I realized that I was pushing, I backed off.
Sayadaw: Don’t try to look for anything. If you want, you can check for things.
It’s so normal that if we hear anything, we always want to be good at it right away.