20190717 Seeing the wrong attitude or process is also important//Sayadaw Tejaniya‘s Dhamma Interview https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VSM1bLU9zpo... (4:20-5:43)
Yogi: Actually, we cannot get what we want.
Sayadaw: Everything that you can get is not only because you want – you get it because of several conditions. But people think that ‘I want, I do and I get’.
That is why they try very hard – but they cannot get many things from trying hard. They can only get it when all the necessary conditions are right – that’s when the result will come.
Because they don’t know about conditioning, they think that if they try hard, they’ll get it – they can only see 1 of many factors that condition the result. The result of getting something is due to many conditions.
Wanting is reduced when you understand more about cause and effect.