WSW 35: Letting Anger Fester Inside, Blaming Others for Our Problems

Verses 67-68

Recap

We’ve been going through this text Wheel of Sharp Weapons or Throwing Star Weapon. It is dealing with the problems of self-cherishing, which is to think of ourselves as the most important and always work just for ourselves – or basically selfishness; and what underlies it, which is this concept that we have of a “true self,” a solid “the real me.” We think this is somehow solidly real, solidly true, independent of everything else and it has to get its own way, which is what causes us to go on what in the West we call ego trips. We’re in the second section of the text, in which we’re looking at all the hypocritical things that occur because we are thinking in terms of this concept of the “true self,” the “real me.” Last time I absent mindedly forgot to put the recorder on for the second verse that we were discussing. So, just for the sake of completeness, let me just in a few sentences mention that last verse. 

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