Welcoming Recurring Traumatic Images and Feelings

I have a traumatic memory regarding someone that keeps coming back even when I’m quiet in being. What would be your suggestion for dealing with this recurring image? Rupert says: ‘Go to the feeling, bring the feeling very close. Love it, embrace it, bring it close. I’m speaking to you, awareness. I’m saying to the screen, bring the dark image in the movie close to yourself – the screen has no aversion to the dark image, because it knows that it cannot be harmed by it. Awareness has no resistance to the dark or painful feeling. The desire to die and liberation in life – it’s the same thing. It’s not a desire to die physically, it’s the desire for the sense of separation to die in you. Don’t try to love that person – you love their being, not the person, because their being is untouched by whatever they did, just as your being is untouched by whatever they did to you.’

From event 07 - 14 September, 2025 Seven-Day Retreat at Mandali, 7–14 September 2025 – ‘Meister Eckhart and the Love of God’

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