Guidance      We are not born enlightened; we are born ignorant, with potentials and inclinations.  We earn every bit of emotional intelligence, even if we start out with a knack for it.   The price of emotional intelligence or enlightenment is (1) the discomforts of realizing what it is that we are ignorant of, and (2) the process of – piece by piece – changing ourselves to be what we have seen in our peak experience.  Well, that process is a kind of misery, an angst in itself, which we call Da...

Guidance       We are not born enlightened; we are born ignorant, with potentials and proclivities.   We earn every bit of emotional intelligence, even if we start out with a knack for it.   The price of emotional intelligence or enlightenment is (1) the suffering of realizing what it is that we are ignorant of, and (2) the process of – piece by piece – changing ourselves to be what we have seen in our peak experience.    Well, that process is a kind of misery in itself, which we call Dark Night...