🍏🌿Understanding The True Self And The False Self (cont.)
🔅🍎The illusory (false) self is made up of desires that, even when fulfilled, fail to add value, or a sense of worth to the self. In fact, quite the opposite process happens.
🍎🔅Let us examine some of these illusions and how they give us a mistaken sense of value.
🍎🔅Illusion (False emotion): Ego
Thought: I know, I am
Result: Arrogance, inflexibility, controlling others
🍎🔅Illusion (False emotion): Anger
Thought: I expect
Result: Force, aggression
🍎🔅Illusion (False emotion): Attachment
Thought: I own, It’s mine
Result: Insecurity, possessiveness, jealousy
🍎🔅Illusion (False emotion): Greed
Thought: I want, I need
Result: Emptiness, wanting, dissatisfaction
🍎🔅Illusion (False emotion): Lust
Thought: I desire
Result: Exploitation, misuse, emotional dependence
🍎🔅These are the five fires that burn away the quality of human life: uncontrolled emotions that once, in their original pure state, gave happiness and peace to the individual but now create only emptiness and sorrow.
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*_Honest Heart_* 🎯
*_An honest heart is an open heart. If we are dishonest in any way with ourselves or with others, it means we are in hiding. There is a wall, a barrier behind which we conceal something of ourselves. Subtle tension will be our companion, and while most of us learn to live with it, it drains our energy and tightens our muscles. On the other hand don’t be too honest with others – feel their pulse – sometimes others are not ready to hear what’s in your heart. But know that when you are honest you will experience a level of inner relaxation that you had forgotten was even possible._*
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