Tricycle Daily Dharma March 9, 2013

What Emotions Reveal When we meditate with the idea of getting rid of our emotions, we are actually empowering the very forces that we seek to escape. On the other hand, when we can use the arising of emotion to examine our underlying sense of identification, we tap the transformative potential of sublimation. - Mark Epstein, "Shattering the Ridgepole"