What Pierces Through the Numbing
Lo que atraviesa el adormecimiento
The teacher describes how we mistake external events for the cause of our pain, and how the path to freedom lies in learning to feel what we have long avoided.
What Pierces Through the Numbing
The teacher describes how we mistake external events for the cause of our pain, and how the path to freedom lies in learning to feel what we have long avoided.
Sometimes something happens that pierces through our numbing. We see that as the cause, but the sensation is actually in us. So then we control the external causes and reinforce the numbing, the contraction.
The cause is not external
The direction of this work is the freedom of learning to first see that the cause isn't external. It's a reaction that we are creating, and it's in service of not feeling something. These are the kinds of things we were not able to feel when we were very young, when our caretakers were not able to help us feel them. And now it's time. It is the direction of freedom.
Intimacy with what arises
Once you can feel and be intimate with any emotion, sensation, or feeling that arises, all kinds of fear, all kinds of pain, then there's no need to struggle and manipulate the world and our experience. There's no need to be contracting into the imagination of time.
That's very helpful. Thank you.
You're very welcome.