I would say both Western psychology and Eastern paths would recognize that we get caught up in feeling like a separate self and an unworthy self.
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Westerners, more than most Asians, are prone to feelings of fear, self-hatred, and unworthiness.
If we fail to appreciate the soul that Easternism gives us, then what we have is a disconnected, Greco-Roman, Western, egocentric, compartmentalized, reductionist, fragmented, linear thought process that counts on cleverness.
I think the American Western laid down a kind of subject matter that's about following your instinct or following your gut and having a sort of removed quality from your humanity. And I think Clint Eastwood helped to establish that.
The idea that there is a sharp boundary between our true inner selves and the outside world is pervasive but highly questionable. The boundaries of the self might well be more porous than we ordinarily think.
In the West, people tend to look at life as spectators, but in the East, people are the thing.
I have been influenced in my thinking by both west and east.
All the traditional westerns are about choice and the individual. When progress comes it's much more difficult to define the individual in that world.
There's guilt about our treatment of native peoples in modern intellectual life, and an unwillingness to acknowledge there could be anything good about Western culture.
The world today needs both western thinking and oriental vision.
West Indian cultural mentality and a North American life equals the perfect balance.