Interview
with Danish Yogi in Hpa An
16th
April 2013
(Part
– 3)
Q : I cannot meditate
very well yet because I still don’t know what to focus on?
Sayadaw : The
problem is that there is attachment to something. So you can focus on that
right understanding. You need something
because of attachment to something. You need someone, especially you, because
of attachment to someone.
If you can detach yourself, you will not need yourself,
not need something. In this way, it is perfection. No need of something or of
someone. When you meditate, just focus on the right understanding.
You are used to place central emphasis on something or
someone, this is why there is attachment to something and someone and thus it
is necessary for you to have something to focus on. That habit should also be
abandoned.
Just change the traditional habit of your mind. Just
think about the right understanding. Just listen to Buddha’s teachings or my teachings
with detachment. Don’t forget my teachings and in this way you will be able to
detach from something or someone.
You will not think about yourself too much. It is not
only your habit. This is everyone’s habit. This is why everyone must abandon this habit.
Q : I think it will
take me long time to understand ... is there a shortcut?
Sayadaw : My
teaching is not only a teaching but it is combined with my actions of detachment.
Although I am establishing different center one after another, the base is
different from other centers. With the time, the difference between my centre
and other traditional centre will be more and more obvious. The weakness of
other centers is that there is attachment to something. In order to solve that
problem I made my centre like this.
I have been teaching for over 5 years before making
(establishing) my own meditation centre. At that time it was difficult for the
yogis to follow my way because they came and listen to my teachings in the
dhamma hall but they could not live with me.
So they came to listen to my teachings day after day, and follow me from
house to house where I was teaching but as they are staying at other meditation
centres their mind was influenced by the tradition. So I decided to do my own meditation centre.
And later I arranged it (my centre) not to be as the
traditional one because I know the weakness of the traditional meditation
centers.
To Be
continued .....
