What’s underneath all that search is what? Fear. Unease. Distress. Feeling miserable. We’re in pain and we use the search to alleviate that pain. We begin to see that the pain comes because we are pinching ourselves. And just this knowledge is relief, even peace. The very peace we’ve been searching for so hard lies in recognizing this fact: I’m pinching myself. No one’s doing it to me. So the whole search begins to be abandoned and instead of searching, we begin to see that practice isn’t a search. Practice is to be with that which motivates the search, which is unease, distress. And this is
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