Such imagery implies that once one embarks on fully knowing dukkha, thereby triggering the positive feedback loop that is the path, one’s life no longer feels as if it were somehow “stuck” or “blocked” or “arrested.” It begins to flow. You realize that the frustration of being hindered in realizing your deepest aspirations is due to the instinctive cravings that arise unbidden, fixating you on the exclusive task of satisfying a desire or repelling a threat that has seized your attentioṇ At times, of course, it pays to heed such instinctive reactions—after all, they are there because they have
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