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Originally Posted by earthmamma
Oh I feel thinking about ourselves can be useful. Fear keep us living a life we may not really happy with. Though change and healing maybe desired it can be scary. I think if we hurt enough we will try anything.
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I think there are two competing ways of looking at this --
One is the maxim 'know thyself' (gnothi seauton) most famously attributed to Socrates, but pretty common throughout the West.
Then there is the more Eastern idea that everything is transient and unfinished, and 'knowing' is impossible (or possible in a radically different way than we would 'know' something in the West). You don't aim for self-examination -- though that may be a preliminary phase -- you work to detach from yourself and join with something larger.
Probably there is a middle ground between the two
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