As long as the mind and breath can’t separate from
each other, they have to help each other along. The mind
helps the breath, and the breath helps the mind until they can get fully
acquainted. Once the mind gets fully acquainted, it can let go. When it knows, it
lets go.

Ajahn Fuang Jotiko (1915 CE-1986 CE), Ajahn Fuang Jotiko was a Thai Buddhist monk and abbot in the Thai Forest Tradition of Theravada Buddhism. Fuang was a student of Ajahn Lee at Wat Asokaram, a monastery near Bangkok. In 1965 Fuang left to pursue greater solitude which he felt would improve his meditation practice. About 1971, Fuang moved to Wat Thamma Sathit in Rayong Province, where he lived as abbot until his death in 1986.