08. Stop Thinking - Pride and Proud

There is no one knows me as well as I do.
The exact reverse is also true; ‘I’ am the last one to know myself.
Pride and proud are the hardest to be aware of,
and the easiest to perceive,
one of the negativities inside me.
Pride and proud are one of the negativities that fears left in inner mind is exposed to the outside.
Mostly, it’s inconvenience to others rather than myself.

People who think they have deeper knowledge or who believe they have extensive experiences are like the ones trying harder to make rooms in a well.
The people who think they know a lot more than others have stronger pride and proud.
To the people who don’t have enough consideration for others,
to the people who don’t communicate with nature,
to the people who think they are more superior and special than others,
to the people who have more separated consciousness than oneness-consciousness,
pride and proud affect them strongly.
Pride and proud are source of superiority and it makes oneself hate to being left behind in competition.

Those people need clarification or explanation for the situations that they face.
People say the situations they are facing are the hardest and the circumstances they have experienced are the toughest.
They are comforting themselves,
exaggerating and beautifying their feelings and want to be consoled.
They tend to console themselves with the thought that they are more special than others.
This is a glimpse of ego that pride and proud creates.
The negativity from fear cannot but go towards oneself or others.
The negativity named ‘pride and proud’has propensity to deceive oneself.
The people who have stronger pride and proud have serious inner desolation.
To be worse, if ignorance and no discernment get into your stride, the symptoms are getting worse and worse.
It leads to delusions of grandeur.
It starts to call oneself the Creator, or even appoint others as the Creator.

Negativity starts at fear.
It absorbs the energy of fear, will grow significantly.
At first, it tortures oneself, and then others later.
To get over the negativity of pride and proud,
it’s important to be aware of it by myself first.
Once you recognize it, try to stop thinking.
You need courage to face the fear,
deep down of the negativity named ‘pride and proud’.
Sit face to face with your fears and then stand against the fears until the roots come up fully.
When you feel hurt, get defensive, and want to be appreciated and beautify,
take care of your mind with love energy,
then the energy of fears will disappear.
The energy of pride and proud will also dissipate.
Then and not till then,
the negative thoughts would stop and you will finally TEACH yourself.

If you are full of pride and proud,
then you have the fears that you are not appreciated from others,
the fears that you are not appreciating yourself,
and the fears that you are not satisfied by yourself at all.
The viewpoint of seeing the phenomenon inside out.
That is the essence for ‘stop thinking’.
This is the beauty of self-teaching.