It’s hard for yogis to remember if I teach too much at a time. My teacher would only teach a few words each time, and we had to patiently collect his teachings.
He did that for many years, teaching one brief instruction at a time. He instructed, for example, ‘Don’t hold on or resist’. That was it; and he would then ask us to go back.
At that time, I didn’t understand what he meant. What everyone does all the time is either holding onto or resisting whatever experience that arises because we don’t know of any better way.
It was only after I had been practicing for a long time that I understood what was meant by not holding onto or resisting any experience. When there is awareness and understanding, the mind lets go of grasping or resisting the experience.