Hello, and welcome back to practicing human, the podcast where every day we're getting

a little better at life.

I'm your host, Cory Muscarra, and in today's episode, we're going to talk about the most

fundamental aggression to ourselves.

More to come on that in a moment, first, let's settle in together with the sound of the

bells.

Okay, I'd like to start with a quote by Pemetrojren, the great meditation Buddhist teacher,

and she says, the most fundamental aggression to ourselves, the most fundamental harm we

can do to ourselves is to remain ignorant by not having the courage and the respect to

look at ourselves honestly and gently.

I'm going to read that one again.

I think there's a lot there, and yeah, a lot to take in, so let me say it again.

The most fundamental aggression to ourselves, the most fundamental harm we can do to ourselves

is to remain ignorant by not having the courage and the respect to look at ourselves honestly

and gently.

So this is an interesting one, right, because we're talking about a fundamental aggression

to ourselves, where we might often perceive the antidote to that, to be some form of self-compassion.

And yeah, she acknowledges the word gently, suggests looking at ourselves gently, but

this seems to be more of an argument for being an honest relationship to ourselves, right?

She says, not having the courage and the respect to look at ourselves honestly, that that

is the most fundamental aggression, the most fundamental harm we can cause to remain ignorant

to that.

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