VIIIPrinciple 8 of 21

Examine yourself before others

Any framework that mainly identifies faults in others has been misused, and this one is unusually easy to misuse that way.

SVADHYAYA · SELF-STUDY

Any framework that mainly identifies faults in others has been misused, and this one is unusually easy to misuse that way. The test of whether a philosophy is working is not how clearly you see the world’s corruption but how honestly you see your own accommodations with it.

The practice

For every criticism you make of a system this week, name one way you personally benefit from it.

A question to carry

What am I unwilling to examine because examining it would require changing?

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