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Our resistance to reality, not reality itself, creates suffering. We will find difficulty within our resistance to every stratum of life; it is within the psychological, emotional, physical, and spiritual realms where we stand in opposition to what is actually occurring. Every one of these levels needs full attention and investigation. They are not hierarchical; the spiritual is not more significant than the psychological. What is important is the self-inflicted pain, not where it is found. We can be very skillful in processing pain on the spiritual level, and very incompetent on the emotional and psychological levels. Freedom is freedom on all levels, and the competent cook turns to the unfinished business wherever she finds it. To arrest the practice on any level is to become fixated and fearful. Each level is passed through until there is an abiding state of free fall.