1/ People are addicted to themselves.
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2/ 'Man stands in his own shadow and wonders why it's dark.' — Zen proverb
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3/ As long as your thoughts revolve around yourself you have understood nothing. You might have a lot in years or experience, but what you have lived was of little consequence.
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4/ The majority of people have nothing better to think about than themselves. They spend their lives projecting themselves into every bit of the past, present and future. Like any addiction, it is a vicious circle that ends up destroying the individual's life.
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5/ This is the disease of the self-conscious mind: Create a story about your experience and think of yourself as the actor in that story. Proceed to think about, analyze, and judge that perception of yourself (which you yourself created) as if it were yourself.
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6/ This divides the human mind into being simultaneously that which perceives and part of what is perceived. This is an impossibility, and such a simple contradiction that even a child can see it.
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7/ And children do; they wonder why their parents react the way they do. They see no obvious reason in reality, for they have yet to experience the existence of the inner reality; the story the person is telling themselves about themselves.
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8/ Everywhere the words 'I', 'me', 'mine' - a battle of stories, an internal conflict that continues unchecked, unconsciously, unabated. The more you think about yourself, the less room there is to think about life, and the less life there is.
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Replying to @mistermircea
Is thinking about whether or not I have this disease of the self-conscious mind already part of the disease?
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Yes, because to 'think about' requires an object - in this case your 'self' objectified. It's of no use to think about it because it will only aggravate it. Notice the mind's tendency and remain present, and it becomes no more than a thought with which you don't have to identify.
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