Apprentice: It’s easier to get hurt and angry and distant than to sit with and stare into my pain.
Teachers: Of course it is. This is what you have always done in the past. You are used to being reactive and it takes time to be able to simply sit with the sensation you are experiencing. Being a practitioner is not easy. Being a practitioner is damned inconvenient – because you can no longer indulge the patterns that have become transparent through practice.”
page 157, Illusory Advice, Ngakma Nor’dzin & Ngakpa ’ö-Dzin, Aro Books Worldwide, 2016, ISBN: 978-1-898185-37-6
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