Sustained conscious attention severs the link between the pain-body and your thought processes and brings about the process of transmutation. It is as if the pain becomes fuel for flame of your consciousness, which then burns more brightly as a result.

   This is the esoteric meaning of the ancient art of alchemy: the transmutation of base metal into gold, of suffering into consciousness.The split within is healed, and you become whole again.Your responsibility then is not to create further pain.

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sever

v 切斷，割斷；把……割下[（+from）]；把……分隔開；使分離

His arm was severed from the body in the accident. 

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transmutation

n.變形；變質；變化；【生】演變

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esoteric

adj. 祕傳的；深奧的；難理解的

Kunqu is an esoteric art form that only a handful of people can appreciate.

崑曲是一種只有少數專家才能欣賞的藝術。

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alchemy

n. 鍊金術；（將事物變得更好的）神奇力量

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