Volume 7, Issue 5, page 4

Such understanding comes suddenly, by itself, as suddenly as when you see the point of
a joke. Altho it comes of itself and cannot be
arrived at as the culmination of a thinking
process, nevertheless it is preceded by "work"
aimed at weakening the insensate and dogged
opposition of ego, who resists his own release.
Just as the edge of the hand can be hardened
in the Japanese method of karate, so ego's
hypersensitivity can be gradually reduced by
practice.

We are not aiming to destroy ego