Yogi: With hearing, it is difficult for me to notice the hearing and not the bird singing because it happens so fast. And what is the difference between hearing and the concept?

Sayadaw: For hearing to happen you got to have the sound, the air medium to carry the sound to the ear, the attention and you have to have a good ear. When these things come together, then we hear something.

Hearing is what we call knowing sound – there is no need to separate hearing and the bird singing.

Understanding reality is not like knowing things separately – it is just realizing their different nature.

You don’t have to see this separately from that – they happen together, so why do you want to see them separately. You see their nature not because you see them separately.

Sometimes you don’t have to follow the precision of the words – you just have to trust the experience.

I explain the nature and using words it sounds like they are separate, but they happen together.