Swiss Retreat 2019 Group Interviews 3 (32:00-33:51)
Yogi: I’m struggling with different minds – there’s a mind that is observing and there’s another mind that is thinking. I know that it cannot be true because only 1 mind can happen at a time.
Sayadaw:: There’s the theory and there’s the practical. The theory that the mind arises one at a time, only the Buddha can know that.
For us, we experience the mind like a river; and the river is made up of many drops of water. Can you see one drop of water at a time? No.
When we experience the mind, it is like a river. We see many minds at the same time; it feels like that, and that’s correct for us. We cannot experience one mind at a time.
We experience a few things happening at the same time.