Today I'm very conscious of the hunger that lies beneath the hunger. The excitement of having this clean energy is winding down, and now I have to deal with the emotional hunger that drives my overconsumption of food, information and entertainment.
Sitting with that raw emotional hunger is very difficult. I can do it, but I don't want to. It feels so insoluble. How do I cultivate the will to do this regularly?
I have to engender a deep, core motivation to feed it with what it really needs, this pure life force that is always available to it, than can never be overindulged. I need to see and feel and experience this hunger dissolving into equanimity. And I need to make that second nature.
