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The Dependent Origination of the Self
There's a project, there is the projection of the self into the thing that you are investigating or experiencing. That neediness is about like, yes, what do I need? What did I not get developmentally? Where do I need safety, etc? And so I think this is more about attention, you know, an awareness of a situation, a consciousness, that something is wrong. Without practice, the step, the each step is very fast and each link gets kicked off very fast. It's almost invisible once it's happened. The whole thing can happen in just like a split second. But with dependent origination practice, you can actually sometimes see, oh, something like I