Yogi: Between touching and knowing the touching, it seems like I don’t see as much detail when there is knowing of the touching.
Sayadaw: Never mind that because you’re trying to know the mind and when the awareness is stronger, the detail will come back.
Knowing the detail of what is happening depends on the strength of the awareness.
When we try too much to see the detail of the object by ourselves, we forget how the awareness works and we never learn to look at the mind.
When we try to look at the object in more detail, there’s always the idea that ‘I’m trying to observe and I see more detail’. So, there’s always the sense of me being able to do something. But when we’re not trying to see detail but keeping the mindfulness continuous, and when the mind can see more clearly by itself, the true cause and effect becomes clear.
We don’t see more clearly because we want to see more clearly; we see more clearly when the mind becomes able to see more clearly.