Yogi: I used to watch only my breath; then, Sayadaw said that I could try to be aware of the all the 6 sense doors. I went back and practiced that and found that automatically there was right attitude when I opened up the awareness. Is this correct?

Sayadaw: We don’t need to open our 6 senses – they are always open. These senses are already available; we don’t have to avoid them. We can welcome and know all the 6 senses. We don’t think that we must only watch one thing.

Even if you’re aware of your 6 senses, you don’t know if you have right attitude; you need to check if there is right attitude or not.

You happened to have right attitude, but sometimes you could have wrong attitude. You cannot say that because you can be aware of more senses, there is right attitude.

There are people who are aware of many things but still have wrong attitude. They still think that there’s something wrong and they feel unhappy about it.

You can say the other way: because you have right attitude, that is why you have this experience. It is not the other way around that because you have progressed to this point that you have right attitude.