Nick Routledge@nick_routledge

@lukeburgis Not just looks. In this, Trungpa pairs well with Girard's perspective, too: the insecure self looks to others for confirmation, comparison produces rivals, rivalry becomes reciprocal aggression, and soon we’ve created the hostile world we imagine ourselves defending against.

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Copy of Chogyam Trungpa's 'The Myth of Freedom', held in hand.