Ego Based Interpretation - The Second Arrow

When we're in the grip of the first and second arrow, feeling the aggression or the craving, that's when we're suffering in a very olid sense of separate self. And i sometimes talk about this as a kind of olymbic hijacking. It locks us in to a sense of deficient, bad self. If we're turned on ourselves, we can't love this lifethe turning on ourselves contracts. There's a kind of unpleasant contracted feeling. We move through day and there's an undercurrent of not ok, and we don't realize how much it's affecting us.