Aufgeblasener Individualismus

„It took moving into another country […] to realize that a lot of the things I say are just things Americans say, and a lot of the attitudes I have aren’t my own attitudes, they’re just attitudes Americans have. And when I kinda got into doing more zazen, I realized: They’re not just attitudes that Americans have, they’re attitudes humans have. And all the stuff I took to be unique to myself – the vast majority, over 99.999 percent were just … human. It was just ‚the human thing‘, and then there’s this tiny bit of individuality, wich I had inflated into something huge and ridiculous.“

– Brad Warner im Video „Self Esteem, Self Confidence and Nonself“ auf seinem Youtube-Kanal „Hardcore Zen“