Feeding Your Demons: Ancient Wisdom for Resolving Inner Conflict

If it emitted a sound, what would it be?

When mind looks at mind, The waves of conceptual thought disappear.

Fundamentally all the demons that we have looked at are thought processes that block a state of clear awareness, and they grow out of this demon of ego fixation. The practice of feeding your demons seeks to liberate all these demons and transform the energy caught up in them into positive energy,

Abusive molestation can be energetic, verbal, or involve subtle ways of touching or even staring. This can be confusing because you might think “nothing really happened,” but this is no reason for its destructive power to be minimized. Problems caused by these kinds of sexual abuse can be very deep.

One way you can recognize teachers or ministers caught in this demon is by their delineation of themselves and their mission as good and of the rest of the world as evil or corrupt.

Many people have “art demons” that can be triggered by this process — fears that they are not artistic, or “can’t draw,” which is why it is so important to emphasize that this art is only intended to help us in our own process.

Just arriving at Tara Mandala brought up his demons in a big way, since he didn’t know anyone there, and Douglas developed extreme anxiety.

The true nature of the mind is clear and lucid, so gradually, after we have fed these demons in the fifth step, we can let the mind rest in its own nature, which is as vast as the ocean.

As empty space Is devoid of form, color or image, So too, mind itself Is free of form, color or image.