The Hub of Self-Doubt

The more that we encounter kind of repeating patterns, the more that self-doubt gets fuel because when our insecurities or selfishness or defensiveness or tendency to control comes up, there's some place in us. This has been here since I was, you know, just a we being and the basic conclusion is that this badness is a core defining feature of who I am. So what it comes down to, Ms. for the Buddha and for us, is that depending on our sense of identity, our sense of who we are, we're either going to be living in a sense of doubt or we're going to move over towards freedom. But identity is the key