Yogi: Although there is awareness of the emotion, sometimes I choose to engage with it.

Sayadaw: Who chooses to engage in the emotion? You think that intention is you, but intention is not you.

Choosing mind is choosing mind, not ‘I want to do this and that’. People have the habit to think that this mind or any mind state is ‘me’.

Next time, just say that the mind wants to choose, not I want to choose. This is better because when we’re aware of whatever mind is happening; it is more open and natural. Otherwise, we get attached to the idea of self and that is wrong view.