The suffering that you endure is in direct proportion to your sense of self importance.
Suffering occurs when self image is hit. Sometimes, during daily mundane interaction, ego is hit. This attack on the ego is hard to endure. It immediately sets up thoughts of self defense and self justification to minimize the imaginary damage to the self image. Self justification keeps you stuck in the cycle of denial. To truly admit your mistake seems like a calamity. To accept that you are wrong is terrible to endure.
But once you admit your mistake, you are already on the way to repairing ' damage'. So sometimes one has to swallow up one' s pride and accept one's mistake. The only way out of suffering. Otherwise the cycle of self justification will keep running in the mind and keep the mind running. To still the mind, the mistake has to be accepted.
Suffering occurs when self image is hit. Sometimes, during daily mundane interaction, ego is hit. This attack on the ego is hard to endure. It immediately sets up thoughts of self defense and self justification to minimize the imaginary damage to the self image. Self justification keeps you stuck in the cycle of denial. To truly admit your mistake seems like a calamity. To accept that you are wrong is terrible to endure.
But once you admit your mistake, you are already on the way to repairing ' damage'. So sometimes one has to swallow up one' s pride and accept one's mistake. The only way out of suffering. Otherwise the cycle of self justification will keep running in the mind and keep the mind running. To still the mind, the mistake has to be accepted.
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