IF YOU WANT TO UNDERSTAND, YOU CAN UNDERSTAND
When wisdom is present, it wants to know what is going on.
For example, you have been watching the breath as an object for a long time – what’s the difference between in-breath and out-breath?
That’s it – we have been watching the breath for many years, but we don’t know much about it.
That means that the mind is not interested. We practice meditation for various reasons; most yogis watch the breath to calm the mind down. They just use the object to be aware, aware, aware – they don’t want to understand.
Vipassana idea is different – it wants to know what is happening. The motivation is very different. If you want to know, then you can know. If the motivation is to calm down, they don’t want to know and therefore they don’t know.
If you want to understand, you can understand.