How Might We Defeat Vanity?

What you're calling "vanity" is the thing that I call "the hankering for approval of theoretical self." Reasonable self-alludes to a sort of personality that depends on the past - thoughts, pictures, and stories which the psyche accepts are "myself," and which are put away as static recollections - rather than a sort of self-acknowledgment which is vibrant and alive at the time.

This is an essential qualification in understanding the goals of your inquiry: genuine self can't be put away in memory, it needs to wake up at the time. We regularly don't comprehend this - we need to take our "best self from memory" and heap up proof that it's changeless, genuine, and real.

That endeavor to heap up such proof is the mind attempting to approve something which is presently put away in a level, 2-dimensional, and "perished" frame... it resembles trying to pour water onto a dried plant, supposing it can return to life.

So that is dependably an inauthentic exertion, and when you sense "vanity," that is what you're detecting - the disarray of endeavoring to demonstrate that a past-based idea of self is "who I truly am."

It's an extremely tension loaded exertion, on the grounds that at a more profound level, the mind speculates that it's very own endeavors at this are by one means or another overlooking what's really important or vainglorious, and does not have any desire to stand up to that concern.... that produces uneasiness, thus the individual develops a social and subjective "divider" planned to keep that mystery: "I speculate that I don't generally know I's identity. However, I'm endeavoring to revive and demonstrate my best minutes from the past so others will approve them and I'll feel like I know my actual self".

Most importantly one needs to build up a clear comprehension of the refinement between a self which is alive and genuine in the present, versus past-based ideas, and figure out how to identify with both of those methods for perceiving 'myself.'

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