Lets see, there are some points always to reflect on when it comes to cultivating humility.
Pride is so worth us working on. As most likely our fall was due to it. Meaning it has marked our whole experience of life from that moment back then to now.
Classically the falls are sexual, but before that there was pride. A pride that deemed ourselves 'more' than the Being in us. That our desires etc. are 'more' than the Being in us.
Pride does that all the time, it sacrifices the good, the right, the correct for itself. That is it sacrifices those good things for our own personal interests, face (save face), position, standing etc.
Cultivating means to work two things in parallel. Dying in pride and living out humility.
Within pride is the majesty, dignity and sense of balance of the Being. So then if we exercise these values we will be cultivating humility.
Doing a study for ourselves of these values really helps to be able to apply them, and above all to know how to apply them correctly. Because not applying them correctly takes us back into the same pride.
Pride is so huge. It is in so many details. Big details and small details.
We know when it is pride, that is where we can start from. There are also so many times when we don't know that it is pride...
Pride is in attitudes, concepts, words, opinions, fantasy, justification, excuses, expressions, gestures, tones, strong words, arguments, right and wrong, no point trying to list them, just so many things it appears in.
We need for a little while to develop a pride focused self-observation so that we can better detect it, especially in the subtle details.
End (4095).
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