I think he is speaking about the way we identify with our suffering and that suffering is often caused by our fantasies and idealizations of our circumstances. If we realize the fantasies we live in and how these relate to and even create our identities, we can start by detaching from our identification with our suffering and then examining and sacrificing both our suffering and the fantasies that suffering is based on, to begin with, then we can start to become free to live in our essence.
On Oct 10, 2024 Marc Brousseau wrote :