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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not everyone is susceptible to the same traps. often it's the case that we are quite good at noticing the traps that we aren't susceptible too, that we've witnessed others become ensnared in while we ourselves managed to see it and avoid it.
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that's a trap itself. go ahead, pat yourself on the back and feel good that you avoided that one. which one are you not stuck in and you can't even see it though?
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sometimes it takes another person who can see it with their perspective and experience to tell us when we've become trapped. will we believe it when they tell us? do you trust the person telling you? do you trust that they can see it when you cannot?
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at some point you develop some insight into where you're still stuck. what traps you wandered into in the past and are still caught in. then what? what do you do when you can see the way in but not the way out?
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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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imo you can't be too proud or humble if when you keep in mind the realization that we're all just conduits – "you" are neither special or unspecial, "you" are really nothing at all, an illusion, a momentary assemblage, a play of light. self-fixation is the problem on both fronts
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