Defilements, they do their job very well. They arise automatically because of habitGo and check the mind quality of old people – moha grows stronger and stronger for these people because they live with moha.
People often say that they fear growing old because their mind and body would get weaker and weaker. Actually, the mind never grows old; it’s only the body that grows old.
The mind never grows old because the lifespan of the mind is so short – it comes and goes repeatedly. When people say that their mind is weak, it means that wholesome mind is weak, but unwholesome mind – moha – is so very strong.
Old people forget real life because they constantly live in their daydreams and get confused by mixing together the past, present and future; their mind is very deluded.
If we don’t train the mind, we’re sure to go the same way.
Defilements do their job 100 percent well, never less, but awareness, samadhi, and wisdom are struggling to do their job.
That’s why we need to practice all the time, not only for a short time. Yogis think that meditating one hour in the evening every day is enough, but it is for sure not enough.