Yogi: How do I increase or cultivate the faith in the practice?

Sayadaw: When you know the benefit or when you have experienced the benefit of the practice, it helps to establish your faith.

Yogi: Sometimes we lose faith; how to make the faith more continuous?

Sayadaw: None of the 5 Faculties in the practice – awareness, faith, effort, stability of mind and wisdom – is continuous in the practice; all of them go up and down. So, you cannot expect faith to be continuous either.

When there is faith, be aware; and check if the faith is strong or weak. If you lose faith and there is doubt, be aware as such.

Sometimes thinking about how the practice has benefited you helps to overcome doubt.

If you’re practicing continuously, you have more continuous awareness and samadhi; that will definitely increase your faith. When there is wisdom or when an insight arises, there’ll be more faith too.

The job of the yogi is to practice more continuously, and when the awareness and samadhi grow, your faith will also be strong at that time. What is important is to be as mindful as possible.