Key Lesson Part 1
We do not become prisoners because we fail to escape some painful pattern. We become prisoners because we imagine there is a “someone” inside the pattern who must escape it. In truth, the sense of self that feels trapped is a creation of an unconscious nature struggling to escape the experience of itself. Once realized that the suffering inherent in this conflict is not yours... it no longer needs to be transcended; it’s released without effort because it simply has no one left to belong to.
Part 2
No conflict -- in and of itself -- produces a negative pattern. Any pattern of suffering is a dark creation of some pain remembered, replayed, rehearsed, and crystallized over time.
