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Vanity and Hypocrisy

Vanity is the disposition that takes others' evaluations and praise as the primary source of life satisfaction — it is the cancer cell of human nature. Hypocrisy is the state of wanting one thing inwardly while expressing the opposite in word and deed — a symptom of an imperfect life structure. The two are inseparable: vanity drives the performance; hypocrisy is its outward expression. In the Lifechanyuan system, authenticity (purity, naturalness, flowing with one's true nature) stands as the positive counterpart to hypocrisy, and is both the hallmark of the enlightened and a prerequisite for entering the Kingdom of Heaven.

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