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　　Once you see through self-view, the development of the path is then very clear. You trust in this awareness, in non-attachment. You are able to see that attachment is like this, non-attachment is like this. There”s a discernment.

　　When you attach to things, really attach, so that you get the feeling of what attachment, upadana, really is. Don”t just grasp the view that you shouldn”t be attached to anything, because then you get attached to the view not to attach. So really be attached to being this, or to having a view; but observe attachment, really notice the power of attachment, upadana, of ambition, of wanting to get something, wanting to get rid of something. Make it fully conscious. And then once you really see attachment, you can inform yourself to let go of it. Let go. Let it be. So you are more accepting of things until they fall away. Of course, you can”t keep anything, because things are always changing. Even if you delude yourself that you can keep something by holding on, you”ll eventually see that that”s an impossibility.

　　Finally in practice, we”re left with the existential reality of our humanity. We”ve still got these primordial drives, sexual desire and anger. But now we know better than to make them personal. With sakkaya-ditthi, self-view, we”re always judging our sexual desires, and our anger, hatred, aversion and fear, and making them very personal. But now we can look at them for what they are. They”re energies, they”re a part of being human, of having a human body and being in a sensitive and vulnerable space. We begin to see and understand the nature of lust, greed, anger, hatred and delusion, because we have taken the sakkaya-ditthi, the self-view out of it, the attachment to it on a personal level. We see that these energies arise and cease according to conditions. However, if you still haven”t seen through sakkaya-ditthi, then your whole life you”ll be celibate and feel guilty about sexual desire and anger and hatred. You”ll become neurotic through identifying with those energies and forces that are in fact part of human reality, and are not personal.

　　We all have these primordial drives as human beings. They are common to all of us. They are not a personal identity. Our refuge is in awareness rather than in judging these energies that we”re experiencing. Of course, our religious form is celibate, so when sexual energies arise, we”re aware of them, and don”t act on them. They arise and cease just like everything else. Anger and hatred arise and cease. When the conditions for anger arise, it”s like this; likewise fear, the primal emotion of the animal realm. But the awareness of lust and greed, the awareness of anger, the awareness of hatred and fear, that is your refuge. Your refuge is in the awareness.

　　Forest Sangha Newsletter: January 2004, Number 67

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