Key Lesson Part 1
Awakening is the (graduated) process of negating all forms of identification; (it is) the realization that no matter how real the feel of any familiar sense of self -- for its pleasure, or pain -- nevertheless: no sensation does a “self” make, any more than a wave on the sea makes the sea from out of which it rises, and must return.
Part 2
If we have an enemy of any kind, if we shelter recurring resentful thoughts or feelings -- however wise our well-considered reasoning may be... so that we surrender ourselves to the embrace of a suffering induced by our own negative considerations, be warned: in that dark nature is where hides all things hateful.
