there are a lot of traps to developing insight. a lot of ways to get it wrong, despite best intentions. not only are there many traps, there are many trappers. people who will set those traps for you, to drag you into their doctrine, to recruit an ally for their movement.
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one of the most insidious traps of all is pride. what a liar pride is, telling you that you've got it. telling you that you know something. telling you that you're a winner and you deserve it.
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even worse than pride is humility. telling you you're nothing special. telling you didn't earn what you worked for, you were just lucky, or the beneficiary of someone else's work, or that someone else deserved it even more than you did.
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there's a fun double bind to work on. what is the middle way between pride and humility? I've got some knots to untie now if you don't mind.
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