WE SAY THE MIND GOES THERE TO MEAN A NEW ATTENTION MIND
Yogi: The mind keeps on going back to the same story.
Sayadaw: It does that because of either liking or disliking. You should be patient and keep on bringing the mind back to a physical object.
Bringing back doesn’t mean bringing back the same mind. If it’s the same mind, then the mind becomes permanent. It’s a new attention mind and a new object.
We say the mind goes there, but the reality is that the mind does not move anywhere – the nature of the mind is that it happens and it disappears in an instant. When we say the mind goes there, it means that it is a new attention mind.