Yogi: How can we understand the cause of our greed, anger, and delusion through meditation?
Sayadaw: Because your mind is suffering when you practice with craving, your mind cannot be peaceful; you use a lot of energy to focus and the mind becomes tense, right? The effect of defilement nature is suffering. You can know your feelings and mental state.
You watch every time craving and aversion arise – again, again, and again until understanding comes. That’s all.
You learn from your own experience this way.
Yogi: Many yogis observe, but still they don’t have the wisdom.
Sayadaw: Wisdom cannot come immediately. They need to learn how to watch so that understanding can come. That’s the difficult part. I cannot give you this wisdom.
I can only share some experience; that’s all I can do.