““...it was difficult for me to trust in the medicinal teaching that we must recognize friction and the not-so-good circumstances in life as being life, and that this life is perfect. It was hard to trust, swallow, and keep down this medicine, especially in conjunction with the hatred I had experienced and internalized for most of my life. I gagged on this teaching of the perfect life, as I have seen many others do. It is perfect because it is imperfect.””
