Ajahn Chah

You have to experience and understand this for yourself, in your own mind.

Once you do see this for yourself, you'll be developing awareness in the mind at all times and in all postures.

If you're maintaining mindfulness as an even and unbroken flow,

It's as if the drops of water have joined to form a smooth and continuous flow of running water.

Mindfulness is present from moment to moment and accordingly there will be awareness of mind objects at all times.

If the mind is restrained and composed with uninterrupted mindfulness, you'll know each time that wholesome and unwholesome mental states arise.

If you train the mind in this way it means your meditation will mature quickly and successfully.

These days it's common for people to go on Vipassana courses for three or seven days, where they don't have to speak or do anything but meditate.

Maybe you've gone on a silent meditation retreat for a week or two, afterwards returning to your normal daily life.

you might have left thinking that you've done Vipassana, and because you feel that you know what it's all about, then you carry on going to parties, discos, and indulging in different forms of sensual delight.

There won't be any of the fruits of your practice left by the end of it, if you go and do all sorts of unskillful things which disturb and upset the mind.

Wasting everything.

Then next year go back and do another retreat for seven days or a few weeks.

Then come out and carry on with the party, discos, drugs and drinking.

It isn't Dharma practice or the path to progress.

You need to make an effort to renounce.

You must contemplate until you see the harmful effects which come from such behavior.

See the harm in drinking and going out on the town.

Reflect and see the harm inherent in all the different kinds of unskillful behaviour in which you indulge until it becomes fully apparent.

This will provide the impetus for you to take a step back and change your ways.