Yogi: It is not so easy for big daily-life decisions to be guided by awareness-wisdom and be right.

Sayadaw: Relook at our idea that if we have some sort of wisdom that it is going to be okay right away. It is not, more so in life.

We’re used to living life the way we do – if we have mindfulness, it is not going to bring in the wisdom that will help solve our problem today.

Today, you have this problem and you don’t know what decision to make, so you’re mindful and make this decision and this is the result. It could be a good or not so good result and there is some learning – it is going to be a process of learning at home from the decisions you make and the results you get over and over again, changing decisions, changing conditions and changing the way you think about things – all of them – until the mind gets to a point where it understands what thoughts and decisions hurt the mind and then it makes the choices that bring better and better results. 

Yogi: The better choices and results are for whom?

Sayadaw: If it is truly right for this mind, if it is truly wholesome and wise, it has a wholesome effect on those around us.