As if there are two minds

Q: I notice very often when I am practicing that I have other conversations going on, words, or I am hearing songs and music. But yet I still feel the sensations.

SNG: As if there are two minds. One mind is with the sensations and another mind is chattering, doing something.

Q: Yes.

SNG: It doesn’t matter. Don’t try to suppress whatever is coming in the mind, thoughts or fantasies or anything. But start giving more importance to the sensation.

Let all these thoughts be like background music. Then they will fade away automatically. If you give importance to them—either you want to get rid of them and try to push them out, or you start taking interest in them—they will become so predominant that the sensations will fade away. Always give importance to sensation; let there be any thought.

Q: Their presence doesn’t necessarily mean that there isn’t equanimity then?

SNG: No. All these thoughts won’t harm you, they will make sankhāras but they are sankhāras like a line drawn on the water. It can never go deep because you are with the sensations.

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