They will systematically bring up images of what they most deeply fear or hate or crave. In this practice, we can take any area of suffering in our life. We bring it to mind, then we carefully examine the unconscious roots of this suffering. Where is this suffering felt most strongly in our body? What are the underlying emotions, images, and beliefs that hold it in place? These difficult images, feelings, and bodily contractions are faced and examined repeatedly. With profound attention we discover these instincts and drives to be empty, the stuff of illusion, and we are released from them and
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