What Glues Fixation - 02-24-19 by Sokuzan - SokukoJi.org

There is the more subjective form of fixation where we have an emotion, feeling, hope or fear that comes up and won’t go away and we try to do something with it. Then there’s the other kind of fixation that has gone underground and is completely laminated over. Instead bringing awareness and having compassion for ourselves we fight with it and bring in more glue in the form of concepts, ideas, opinions, beliefs and propaganda to protect the self-centeredness. The idea of fixation being glued happens when we try to do anything with it other than see it.

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