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The Pain Teacher - The Little Orange Tree or That Acorn
As we grow and work with the pain teacher, and we give ourselves empathy and compassion, if wecan see ourselves like that little orange tree or that acorn that needs to be nourished. Just as a tree needs warmth, sunlight, water and nourishing soil, solid, good, nutritious soil to grow and become and bear fruit, so do we. And tending to ourselves is one of the most challenging things for us to do,. We are in a culture where we have externalized our parents into all sorts of authority figures and various deities or god images. Remember, yung says, all religious systems are designed to protect you against the direct experience of god, because god is unconditional love