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Healthy Ego Function and Sense of Self in a Narcissistic Landscape

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How to Survive the Inevitability of Suffering

We cling to the sense of what he also called psychiadityte fierce identity that we believe is unique and sets us apart. And this in turn leads to grandiocity and, for him, suffering. The buddha said that when we're faced with inevitable suffering, m aging, sickness, loss, not getting what we want, death, what he called duka suffering. So, um, thats, i think, a very fast nating insight. We also have a theory called mood congruence, which is that sometimes the ego can be held captive by unacknowledged, effective states,. underlying sexual drives or depression or anger.

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