NEW232Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Psychodynamics, Human Frailty, Internal Monologue
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In this article, ww points out the difficulties faced by westerners in truly integrating any insights about the nature of mind and reality. Spiritual realization is easy: it(cid:495)s not difficult to have moments of clarity. How to actualize it (i. e. apply it in our daily lives) is difficult. In some case, realization can make you worse than before you started (more detached, disengaged). We can understand truths of who we are and what we perceive but still have pockets of unconsciousness and ignorance that deceive us and lead to unskillful acts. Realization movement from personality to being (pure liberation from the (cid:494)prison(cid:495) of the conditioned self(cid:524) vs. Transformation- integrating that realization into everyday life (cid:523)that(cid:495)s the difficult part for the west(cid:524) Unstructured being = when you can be with yourself, and have no one or nothing intrude into your psychic space.
