Inner Growth
Solving Inner Causes
Solving the inner cause of your life hindrances and helping others to do so grows you.
Solving Inner Causes 2
Solving the inner cause of your life hindrances and helping others to do so creates a better world for all.
Inner Growth
Inner growth leads to inner transformation.
Inner Growth 2
Inner growth transforms you and the world around you.
Inner Transformation
Inner transformation brings outer transformation.
Inner Transformation 2
Transforming yourself within transforms the world around you.
God’s Dilemma
A believer who does not want to abandon his harmful habits fervently prays for his good health.
The Inner Cause of Suffering
Both mice dying from eating poison and humans suffering from having poisonous thoughts both have a common inner cause for their suffering: not knowing poison as poison.
The Inner Cause of Suffering 2
Both mice who believe eating poison will bring happiness and humans who believe having poisonous thoughts will bring happiness have a common inner cause for their suffering: believing they know what they do not know.
Inner Contradictions
Believing one knows what one does not know. Acting against oneself while wanting to act for oneself. Doing what will cause unhappiness while wanting happiness.
Not Knowing Your Mind 3
Not knowing your mind prevents you from knowing your inner cause that hinder your life, and further prevents you from solving the inner cause. As a result, your life is trapped in hindrances.
Not Knowing Your Mind 4
If you have never seen your mind, you may know yourself like a blind person understands the color red.
Self-Improvement and Inner Growth
Self-improvement is about improving, inner growth is about transforming.
Personal Development and Inner Growth
Personal development is about you, inner growth is about your core.
Personal Development and Inner Growth 2
Personal development is about addressing symptoms, inner growth is about addressing causes.
Personal Development and Inner Growth 3
Personal development is following desire, inner growth is transforming desire.
Personal Development and Inner Growth 4
Personal development helps you get as much of what you want as possible, while inner growth helps you not to get what will cause you suffering and grow beyond your desires.
Personal Development and Inner Growth 5
Personal development helps you get what you think you want, while inner growth helps you know what you truly want.
Personal Development and Inner Growth 6
If personal development is about becoming better than others, inner growth is about becoming better for others.
The Worst Ignorance
The worst ignorance is not knowing one’s own ignorance.
Ignorance of Ignorance
Not knowing what you do not know makes you believe you know what you do not know.
Motivation to Benefit Others
Having motivation to benefit others nurtures our growth and benefits all.
From Ignorance to Wisdom 3
Ignorance fosters foolishness, foolishness fosters pain, pain fosters wisdom.
source: New Direction Archive