We want not to see
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We want not to see.
We want not to see what we take to be painful or ugly.
So we don't look.
From not looking comes not seeing.
From not seeing comes not knowing.
From not knowing comes lack of confidence.
From lack of confidence come vulnerability, brittleness, fragility.
From vulnerability and such comes fear.
From fear comes defensiveness.
From defensiveness comes hostility.
From hostility comes lack of understanding of others.
From lack of understanding comes lack of compassion.
From lack of compassion comes superficiality of relationship.
From superficiality of relationship comes frustration in the sphere of love.
From love frustration comes pain.
Not wanting to see pain or ugliness, we close ourselves in,
creating some of the very pain we will later have to experience or avoid experiencing.
When we see that this is the price we pay for not looking,
we are more willing to look even at what we take at first glance to be painful.
The Far Shore: Vipassana, The Practice of Insight, p. 33.
C 1980,1996,2001,2009 by Mitchell Ginsberg.
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