The Work is a practice. I suggest that people have it for breakfast every morning, and have a good day. Even if you’re graced with the deepest experience of enlightenment, you still need to practice awareness, because there are ancient thoughts that will keep arising in you, and if you don’t question them, they’ll take you over, however enlightened you are. For me, the major thought was “My mother doesn’t love me.” I worked on this one, and dozens of variations, every day for a whole year. I would write down the thoughts as they came to me, and I would meditate on each one, using the four
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