If you do love truth and the revelation of what is real, then you must commit yourself to letting go of the me story no matter how deeply you feel it.
It is easier to contemplate that I am the borderless aware presence than to feel that I am that.
So what?

Feel what you feel without stirring, without moving towards or away. Let the feeling unfold openly in your allowing, in your deep stillness, in your inner silence.
This is where the real work takes place. Not solely in the mind. Not solely in understanding, but in living the truth. Living the stillness and the deep inner silence.
Your vulnerability and yesness will reveal that there is nothing that really gets hurt.
Hurtfulness is an impression. A bodily sensation with a stubborn me story.
You are not a me.
You are not a phenomenal event.
You are the borderless aware presence, inherent freedom, bliss, peace and happiness.

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