Penang Retreat 2019 Group 4 Round 4 (52:00-54:25)
Yogi: Into the sitting, the mind wants to focus more and more. It only relaxes and opens up when the awareness notices that.
Sayadaw: The mind becomes narrow because of wanting. You know this quality of the mind.
It is a learning process – you need to see this again and again, then only the mind will let go of focusing. You’ll then be very careful about focusing in the future.
For me, when the mind begins to focus, immediately the awareness notices that.
When I need to focus, I can focus. But when the defilement comes to focus, I immediately notice that and the mind does not focus.