Yogi: I have a problem with feeling tired at the retreat – sometimes there is aversion and other times the wanting to go to sleep. I sometimes accept it as part of being old.
Sayadaw: When we get older, it is natural to be more tired. If we do have aversion towards it, we just need to work with the aversion.
We can let the tiredness be. We won’t be able to meditate the tiredness away. If there’s a body, there will be tiredness. But we can practice so the mind is more accepting and not resisting it.
Now you are tired, that’s a result of something in the past and you can’t change the tiredness now.
But in the present moment, we have a choice of how we want to be with the mind. We can have the right view and right thought and the mind will feel better even if the body is tired.
Or, the mind can complain – it can have wrong view and wrong thought and, so, the body is tired and the mind is stressed.
In the present moment, that is the choice that the mind has. And if the mind is trained, it can be positive.