Yes.

More differentiated: Do I have to analyze the resentment of some ancestors in years of therapeutic sessions? Does the knowledge of suffering in earlier lives help me? Do I need a strong light to illuminate any dark corners of my childhood? Or do I need to know where my massive impatience with technical problems comes from? Ernst Bloch clearly emphasizes that it is more urgent to remedy people's concrete hunger and thirst, "while it is possible to live for a while without the pleasure of love. Even more so without the satisfaction of the power drive". Thinking in terms of Luce Irigaray's extension, those who need to be nourished then need to be nourished with consciousness, with spiritually liberating food, after their physical nourishment. "I simply give you food instead of also giving you words, images," writes Irigaray, for example, in relation to the socially determined, ascribed role of mother.

Of course, introspection is important so that I am not always disturbed by my quirks and issues - often without even realizing it: thanks to repression, sublimation, displacement, projection, etc. However, from a Buddhist liberating perspective, introspection is primarily about seeing Buddha nature, which is untainted by this old stuff. So it's beneficial to know this old stuff when it influences me and then not get too distracted in my practice. Some deep practitioners use fervent supplication for new crap of their own to check whether they are 'further along', that is, whether strong challenges are still holding them back from their practice for the benefit of all sentient beings.

Expanding on this individual perspective, it is clear that our social conditioning needs to be recognized as well. We live in a deeply patriarchal world, and therefore also in a world of male-dominated language. In a world of language, i.e. a world of thought, which is plastered with metaphors from war and violence ("I surrender", "hold fire", "front line worker", "losing ground").

I am also writing this blog out of anger towards some old crap of my own that has just come up in me. And anger brings clarity, mirror-like wisdom is the fitting name in the classification of the experience concept of the 5 Buddha families.

Is it still necessary to devote myself to these tedious inner stories? If I can get rid of this crap myself, then I might know what similar things mean for others, perhaps I can then have a supportive effect. There is the yes-and that is still missing at the beginning of the blog: crap is good, becomes helpful, sometimes something grows out of it. So that inner wisdom can shine through.