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Originally Posted by SuchFriendsAreDangerous
" Self-importance is another thing that must be dropped, just like personal history. The world around us is very mysterious. It doesn't yield its secrets easily. Now we are concerned with losing self-importance. As long as you feel that you are the most important thing in the world you cannot really appreciate the world around you."
further, self-importance is the beginning of the process of death.
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Oh come on! Have a sense of humour for fucks sake! And anyway if you have no self importance that is just lacking confidence/lacking self respect/being insecure/self hating and having no individuality. Having no self importance is doing nothing for yourself. How is self importance the beginning of the process of death? I thought you liked Buddhism? Buddhism's aim is to destroy the individual by extinguishing the desires, the opposite of self importance, now that is surely death.
How many people actually are so self important that they think they are the most important thing in the world? Not many I should think, only some mentally ill people.
Do you have a personal history or are you a blank slate with no personality? When you meet people you once knew, family members for example, do you greet them with no emotion and no recognition?
You don't site your source of the quote. Who are you quoting? Yourself?