 The challenges in that dark night of the ego are basically constant destruction of everything that you think is what life is or should be, or all these concepts and ideas are just ripped apart, they are shredded to bits, they are crumbled, they are hammered into nothingness. And what follows after that dark night of the ego as you get closer and closer to the truth, because you can't go anywhere, the moment you try to move out of that state of thisness and presentness, and simple surrenderedness, you get another slap. So at one point you're just very much right there because you have no choice, you can't go anywhere else, you have to be here and now.