Yogi: I have a lot of bad judgment and comparing mind. I don’t like it and try to watch it. I tell myself that I should concentrate on positive things.

What else can I do?

Sayadaw: The good thing is that you’re aware of all this. That is the positive.

All the things that are happening in the mind, they are not important at all. The profit is that you’re aware of everything.

It is right view to know something as it is. You remember that you should be positive? So, remember this positive – that it is good that there’s mindfulness.

It is positive to be mindful of whatever is happening, however ugly.

Yogi: Even if it doesn’t change anything?

Sayadaw: There is no need to change anything. Meditation is not to fix anything; meditation is to know everything.

That knowing is wholesome; it has wisdom that can grow in it. 

Yogi: But do I have to live with this?

Sayadaw: You’re supposed to live with the knowing mind. This knowing mind is what will transform your life.

The knowing has to happen a lot because the more this knowing mind knows, the more it will know the good, the bad, the beautiful, the ugly, the pleasant, and the unpleasant, the more it’ll understand, the more change it’ll see.