Yogi: I was experimenting with sitting longer to see what happened. After an hour and a half, there was a lot of pain, but it seemed like fake pain because my hands felt like they were bruised and I thought I was sitting on a rock.

The pain got really intense suddenly, and I had to move. After that, I sat for a while longer.

Sayadaw: You need to come back to the real sensation. When you have the real sensation, you can see if the sensation is solid or not.

Now, the mind has a picture of sitting on a rock, but you know it’s not a rock or you felt your hands were bruised but they weren’t bruised. So, you need to come back to feel the real sensation.

If there was a feeling of pain and the mind was that steady, if you gently put your attention on it, you will see the reality of the sensation, which is just all movement.

You won’t see it as solid; you will see the changing nature of the sensation.

It won’t feel solid anymore.