The nature of our pain points us to the nature of the transformation we need to make. If we are angry, we need to move toward inhabiting our anger and then letting go of it. If we are in despair, we need to move toward hope. But the intensity of our pain is even more helpful in this process than its particular cast. As we sit in the boundless field of mind during the ten days of transformation, impulses and feelings rise up and fall away all around us. Those impulses and feelings that assert themselves with particular force are the ones we are most likely to follow. This is the great gift of
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