Yogi: Not taking my sadness and anger personally feels likes suppressing or disallowing them. Is it wrong to feel my emotions?

Sayadaw: You can let the mind do what it is doing, you just add being aware of what it is doing. It is like watching a child cry – allow the emotion and know it.

Although you don’t want to encourage or feed that emotion, you also don’t want to stop it.

[Watch the emotion objectively and let the mind learn over time – if we interfere by stopping or participating in the emotion, then the mind doesn’t have the chance to learn.]