“They lack concern for others and are concerned solely with the ‘I.’ Simply put, they are self-centered.”
YOUTH: “So would you say that people like me, who fear being judged by others, are self- centered, too?”
“Even though I try so hard to be mindful of others and adjust myself to them?”
PHILOSOPHER: “Yes. In the sense that you are concerned solely with the ‘I,’ you are self- centered.”
“You want to be thought well of by others, and that is why you worry about the way they look at you.”
“That is not concern for others. It is nothing but attachment to self.”
YOUTH: “But...” PHILOSOPHER: “This is something I spoke of last time.”
“The fact that there are people who do not think well of you is proof that you are living in freedom.”
“You might have a sense of something about this that seems self-centered.”
“But I think you have understood this from today’s discussion:”
A way of living in which one is constantly troubled by how one is seen by others
is a self-centered lifestyle in which one’s sole concern is with the ‘I.’
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