Compassion and other heart-based practices have been the most helpful for me in terms of transmuting heat. When I feel the fire kindling and notice my heart rate rising, I regulate and reroute this heat intentionally, like a controlled fire that warms rather than burns.
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I cultivate the heartfelt aspiration for all to become unshackled from what binds them, myself included, converting the binding aspect of attachment into a committed presence and unattached immersion in the world of beings mutually unbinding.
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Through practice, the hot (-) quality of attachment cools (+) into unattached equanimity but remains warm (+) with compassion rather than cold (-) with indifference. Inner heat has been transmuted from poison into medicine.
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