NEW232Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Narcissism, Mahayana, Psychoanalysis
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*having awareness" is not equal to having a self". Lead unnecessary craving/expectation from the world -> suffering. Experience how your emotion arise, cease to exist. Cycle of emotions go through daily but we only pay attention on emotion and carried away instead of analyze how emotions arose. Not deterministic, but we can create, allow yourself to let conditions influence you. Self-experience reveals experienced self is constantly changing flow, there was no stability. There are many selves that each moment is a new one, depends on conditions. Self is attitude towards experience (what we like/dislike) and it is invented, defiled, and elaborated. This self" vanishes as it is created but all are correlated. That"s why we are not always aware of self" or ego". *narcissism is: extreme case of idealization, caused by unconscious. Goal of life is to discover true self". Self" is no-self and the no-self is self". Deny formed self, ego-delusionized self to realize our true self.
