In an attempt to avoid the fact that our partner is alcoholic or that we’re addicted to marijuana or that we’re in yet another abusive relationship, we earnestly train in relaxing into spaciousness, openness, warmheartedness. We try to use our spiritual training to avoid the queasy feeling in our gut. The point is that we will bring our habitual ways of gluing ourselves together right into bodhichitta practice, right into the training in ungluing. If we want some insight into our habitual patterns, we can look at how we are relating to our practice, to the teachings and the teacher. Do we
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