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Hunting the shadow | Buddhism for Vampires

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To discover your shadow qualities you have hidden from yourself, you must go hunting on the path of attention.

Image courtesy TeaBeforeWar We can embrace our monstrosity while cultivating our human nobility. We can allow each to transform the other, so we become cheerful, kind, useful monsters who are also overpowering, unpredictable, and dangerous heroes. How? In “ Eating the shadow ,” I suggested five phases: hunting, chewing, swallowing, digesting, and burning. You have to go hunting, if you want to find what you have hidden from yourself. Chewing shadow is getting extremely intimate with a rejected bit of reality and thoroughly experiencing it, without holding it away at all. Swallowing shadow take

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