Swiss Retreat 2019 Group Interviews 14 (1:20:45-1:22:40)
Yogi: How can I wish compassion for myself or somebody else if there is no ‘I’ experiencing that there is consciousness knowing that there is pain? Who do I wish for then?
Sayadaw: There is nobody, just on the conditions.
There is no need for a self to be there – in fact the self intensifies the suffering. It is just compassion on the conditions.
When the mind is in that state, we can also contemplate the dhammas that are present. The dhammas that are present then are sensation, object, awareness, vedana/feeling.
Contemplate the nature of the dhammas that are present.
That will be dhammanupassana, contemplation of nature.