"For
instance, if you define yourself as bad, there’s no way you can help
yourself out of the predicament of your suffering. You would need
outside help to overcome your inherent badness. If, to avoid that
problem, you choose to define yourself as inherently good, you also run
into a problem: If you’re inherently good, how did that goodness allow
you to succumb to pressures to behave in unskillful ways leading to
suffering? And if inherent goodness is something that can be lost,
what’s to prevent you from losing it again after you’ve reclaimed it?
"So a necessary skill in the path to true happiness is learning step-by-step how to think in a way that avoids the categories of objectification."
-- Tahn Geoff on Papanca
"So a necessary skill in the path to true happiness is learning step-by-step how to think in a way that avoids the categories of objectification."
-- Tahn Geoff on Papanca
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