From: oldernow@dev.null   
      
   On 2024-02-08, Ilya Shambat  wrote:   
      
   > Instead of teaching people to look within, it is far more   
   > effective to teach them to look outside of themselves -   
   > at other people, at nature, at other cultures than their   
   > own. The success of Vysotsky far exceeds that of any   
   > self-esteeming yuppie, and there is a very good reason for   
   > that. He was in touch with something much deeper than his   
   > immediate self, and he put words to it. And it is for this   
   > reason that his songs are still being listened to all over   
   > Russia over 30 years after his death.   
      
   The "yuppie" kind of "look within" is purely conceptual, merely   
   examining beliefs about the individual/person one allegedly is.   
      
   There's a deeper look within than that, which I prefer to call   
   looking "behind the within", which is essentially awareness looking   
   at itself. In addition to other things, said looking undermines the   
   notion of the individual/person, effectively ending what seems/feels   
   to be a slavery/bondage to said notion.   
      
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