If you want to be relaxed, peaceful and happy, you must know the nature of the mind. You must know why the mind suffers and why it is happy and peaceful.

We watch the mind because we want to know every mind, good mind and bad mind also. We want to know the nature of physical and mental processes; that is why we watch the body and mind all the time.

Don’t judge the experience – for an awareness yogi, the object never disturbs the mind. An object is an object, meaning, it is neither good nor bad. We use the object to grow the understanding.

For normal people, craving and aversion arise because of the experience; for the meditator, awareness and wisdom arise and wholesome mind increases because of the object.