Shame and the Self

16/01/2016 18 min
Shame and the Self

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Episode Synopsis

In our individualistic culture, it is all about “me”. Often this has been referred to as the age of narcissism. A common form of suffering in our affluent culture is variations on the sense of shame, the sense of not being good enough, of being inadequate, of being a failure. This is to be contrasted with the zen teaching that we are okay just as we are.