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Recieved: 1999/09/21 01:18
Subject: Re: [K-list] seemingly stupid questions about K
From: Martin Thompson

21:47:02 Mon, 20 Sep 1999
 at PokimontazATnospamaol.com writes:
>I think maybe selfconsciousness is a human hang-up. enlightenment is seeing
>things for how they are and accepting them? Self-conscious is so
>superficial i think. Hard to explain that one sorry...but why does it take
>people so long to become "comfortable" with themselves. I think there is
>more to it than that
>
I think we develop self-consciousness as kids, when we need to monitor
our own behaviour to survive in a world of powerful adults that we don't
understand.

By the time we're adults ourselves, or even teenagers, we've forgotten
that the self-consciousness was just a survival tactic and have adopted
it as a habit - hence it has become unconscious and automatic. That
makes it hard to fix, since we have no awareness of where it is coming
from.
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