How does the phoenix train?
Even the phoenix is afraid of fire for the first time. Even though he knows - by birthright - what he will be reborn. But he has not checked it yet, so it’s scary.
At first you resist fire because you are afraid - it hurts. Again and again, it hurts you, and then you finally learn why it does: you tried to start a fire from the outside, with matches. This fire is foreign, alien, this is not your internal fire.
You flare up from within. You burn the burns you got on the outside. You are tired, the fire goes out. You rest and try to light it up again - it goes out quickly.
You figure out that the fire alone is not enough, and you discover air. You blow on the flame - too much, the nest is burned to charcoal. It upsets you - the fire goes out...
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