Karmic Obstacles Series 62 articles
Understanding karmic obstacles: inner defenses and external circumstances
An Ego of Grief, Fear, and Alarm: The Night Watchman EgoA Very New Kind of Ego: The "Homework Doer" EgoAn Ego Blind to What Is Closest: The Observer Ego, the Enlightened Master EgoAn Ego That Is Hard to Awaken: The Mindfulness Practitioner EgoKarmic Obstructions: A Special SeriesKarmic Obstructions Are a Misfortune: Practice Self-Compassion—A Low Day Is a Hard DayThe Explosion of Mental Processes Caused by Entangled East Asian Family RelationshipsThe Covert Aggression Widespread in East Asian FamiliesSmall-Town East Asian Boys: From All-Powerful Bosses to Powerless Ordinary PeopleThe Genius-Based Meritocracy of East Asian Math and Physics Students Is Naive and IgnorantThe Existential Crisis of Middle-Aged ProgrammersWith a Stronger Sense of Agency, Scrolling on Your Phone Loses Its HoldYou Cannot Be a Social Darwinist and Elitist Only When Luck and Power Are on Your SideEveryday Life as "Reverse Spiritual Practice": A Confusion of FeelingsI Once Wanted Success to Prove Myself, and Self-Proof to Bring SuccessThe Superiority ComplexOthers' Karmic Obstructions Work Through Our Own: Entanglement Among Colleagues of the Same Generation and RoleCompulsive StrivingBrave NoraEndure the Worst Hardships to Become the Lowest of the Low: Suffering Has No MeaningVoice and Class: Why Workers Often Speak with Tight Throats Instead of a Voice Supported from the Lower AbdomenAnswering "Is There a Future for Someone Who Has Achieved Nothing by 30?": Marx + Zhuangzi Offer a Philosophical AnswerThe Inner Crisis of Middle-Aged Programmers at Big Tech CompaniesCommon Misconceptions About Socialization Among College Students, and Some AdviceThe Fundamental Contradiction Facing College StudentsA Common Form of Feeling Lost in College: An Existential CrisisHow to Handle a Midlife CrisisHow to Embrace Your Dark SideHow to Stop Denying Yourself Permission to Lie FlatHow to Deal with a Harsh Superego and Self-AttackHow to Overcome LonelinessHow to Overcome Feeling Inferior About Your Educational QualificationsHow to Deal with Year-End and Lunar New Year AnxietyHow to Deal with Excessive AnxietyHow to Separate Your Responsibilities from Other People'sNora's Fellow Prisoner SyndromeSeeking Truth from Facts: A Personal Realm of DelusionThe Small-Town Exam Ace MalaiseThe Desire to Conquer Is Actually Submission to Being ConqueredYoung People Growing Up in Unhealthy, Toxic Environments Shaped by NPDOur Generation's Battlefield Is Within: Each Person's Most Important Friend and Enemy Is ThemselvesNone of These Negative Selves Is Me: They Are Karmic Obstructions, They Are the EnemyAccepting MediocrityAccepting Your Limited Spiritual Attainment Is Itself an AttainmentRespect the Power of Karmic ObstructionsThe Proletarian Has Nothing to Lose but Chains: The Same Holds for Ordinary People's Psychological HealingOrdinary People Around 30: Let Go of Excess and Shed Your ShacklesInnate Wholeness: What Poison Drives Us to "Seek" Outside Ourselves?Van Gogh Should Stop Trying to Win His Brother Theo Over: Let Go and Move OnWater Ghosts: Resentful Spirits Drowned and Trapped in the River of FateLiving Through a Low StateThe Demons and Monsters of Everyday Life: The World of Journey to the WestMale Self-Objectification: Being Admired, and Desire as the Other's DesireThe Real Enemy: Chronic Tension and Mental FogSeeing the Spiritual Practitioner Ego's Busyness While SleepingThe Zhihu Malaise: Feeling Lost and Indulging in Fantasies in Your TwentiesElitism Turns Good Fortune into a CurseOn Breathing: My Journey from Shallow, Chest, and Stomach Breathing to Abdominal BreathingOn the Petty Bourgeoisie and Luxury GoodsLight-Chasing Monsters: A Type of Consumer of Positive EnergyTao Te Ching: When Families Fall into Discord, Filial Devotion and Parental Love Appear"Valuing Emotional Bonds" Is a False Concept, and Often Pathological