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Caught in the Idea of a Self
WESTERN PSYCHOTHERAPY AIMS at helping create a self that is stable and wholesome. But because psychotherapy in the West is still caught in the idea of self, it can bring about only a little transformation and a little heal-ing; it can't go very far. As long as we are caught in the idea of a separate self, ignorance is still in us. When we see the intimate relationship between what is self and what is not self, ignorance is healed and suffering, anger, jeal-ousy, and fear disappear. If we can practice no-self, we'll be able to go beyond the questions that make people suffer so much.
I agree with you. I haven't read that, but I came to the same "conclusion" while playing Splatoon 3 one night.
The more I look at the world through the lens of a struggle between the reconciliation of a "self" and an "other" the more things make "sense" to me.
It starts to feel like all media is trying to convey the same idea, but there's never a way to be 100% certain that the message is being received as intended. The best we can do is express ourselves as honestly as possible, and do our best to love each other.