Penang Retreat 2019 Opening Talk (38:50-40:11)
Yogi: I have watched pain for a month and it still doesn’t go away. What should I do?
Sayadaw: Why do you watch the pain? You want it to disappear? If that’s your attitude, it is already wrong.
Why do you watch the pain? What for?
We want to understand the nature of pain and why the mind resists the pain. What is pain? Why is there pain?
(The same goes for other habitual defilements like anger and drowsiness. We want to watch and learn about the mind, not to make it go away.)