Question: My mind wanders a lot. I have tried to be mindful, but my mind still wanders. How can I detach from this wandering mind? Also in sitting positition.

As a meditator, we should understand the truth  that nothing is permanent, no one is permanent. Wandering mind is also not permanent. We should apply this right understanding when the mind is wandering. We need to be patient enough to know the impermanent nature or each of the wandering mind or the whole process of wandering mind. The mind will be always changing, movement and stillness are the nature of the mind. Movement and stillness of the mind will always happen, naturally. We should be mindful in the whole process when the wandering mind stops. Whenever the mind is stable again, we should be mindful the end or the stillness of the mind. There will be moving and stopping of the mind endlessly.

We need to experience the changing of the mind, between movement and stillness continuously. The more we experience like this, the more we can detach from wandering mind and stable mind. In sitting position, present action of mindfulness and detachment are essential. Sitting in lotus position or not are not essential. If you can sit in lotus position, it is better. If you cannot sit in lotus position, it is not much important.

Sitting in lotus position with ignorance and attachment is not following the middle way. Only when there is mindfulness and detachment in sitting standing walking or lying is only following the middle way.