2021.08.18 | When we start out on this path, even though we learn the teaching of not-self, we still have a self. This attachment to ‘me’ and ‘mine’ is not something that we are able to instantly put down. Therefore, we need to make this self good first, by teaching it to be kind, generous, moral and peaceful. Only when we have a stable and wholesome sense of self can the insight into not-self appear.

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