Yogi: I think I go into strong concentration when I sit. There’s a strong vibration in my mind and all I want to watch is this vibration. I was with it for close to 2 hours in one sit.
Sayadaw: Vibration is physical; why do you think vibration is mind?
Yogi: I say vibration because I don’t know another word, and it is something I cannot locate in my body.
Sayadaw: You don’t know for sure that is the mind – so don’t think vibration is the mind. You can say: this is an object. Don’t go closer to the object, don’t go into it and don’t inspect it.
Stay with the awareness; don’t go nearer to the vibration. Stay knowing, that awareness is still present.
When you stay with the awareness, it will pick up other objects.
Sayadaw: Are you attached to this object?
Yogi: Yes, I like it.
Sayadaw: You need to watch the liking mind; don’t look at the vibration. You need to look at the liking mind until it is not there.
If you watch the vibration with the liking mind, you’ll like it more and more and it will just grow.
Once you get attached, you get too much into the object, you’ll start going into the object, and then all sorts of complicated things can happen on retreat.