Yogi: When I meditate, the quality of awareness is dull and unclear. Should I just accept it, or how do I energize it to make it better?

Sayadaw: What do you want to do? You want to change, right? That’s the problem.

You said you want to accept, but already you want to change.

I said to check the quality of the awareness, that’s it. Just checking and not trying to change.

You notice that the experience is not good and the mind wants it to be good. The big problem with the meditator is that they don’t like bad situations.

If we don’t understand bad situations, then we’ll never overcome them.

Quality is no good, it is okay because it is also an object; just an experience. So, check your attitude first; what does the mind want to do? This is wanting to control and get what we want.