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Tantric Chasing of the Shaddow
To hunt the shadow, the Jung-ian concept, you might be tempted to “look deeply inside yourself.” That doesn’t work well. Mostly all you’ll ever find there are familiar fantasies and feelings. Your shadow, by definition, is what you have succeeded in hiding from yourself. It is the not-me —the aspects of life that, long ago, you rejected and cast out.
To hunt the shadow, you have to pursue it outside your self. Or, more accurately, you will find the shadow’s tracks in your interactions : with other people, with the non-human world, and with your own, unfamiliar body.
How do you find the shadow? In Buddhist terms by noticing the 3 poisons: lusting, loathing, & ignoring.
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Self as a pattern
What we call “self” is mainly patterns in relating to others. Understanding these patterns is one way to transform one’s self, which transforms one’s interactions, which creates a context for others to do the same.
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Loathing others
Think of someone that pisses you off. You will find that whatever is most annoying about them is also true of you. Exceptionally aggravating people are often unusually similar to you.
You may be right that they behave badly. But you are not essentially different—you differ only in how you choose to express or suppress that trait. Become aware of it.
When you have swallowed your own monstrosity, it is easier to allow monstrosity in others.
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What do you want? Become the monster!
Most people don’t clearly know what they want—nor what they like.
Of course, some things practically everyone wants: better sex, and buckets of money, and to be young, healthy, and good-looking forever. This is the obvious stuff, which, for most people, is not in the shadow.
What you want is much more likely to be odd than awful. It might be socially unacceptable, but probably not harmful. It's that part of you that you think that makes you a monster. Embrace the monster.
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