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    The narcissistic mindset (level one) lacks sufficient self-grounding and opens toward the Confucian relational mindset (level two)

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    • 1.The narcissistic mindset places one's own interest above others
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    • 2.To prioritize one's own interest above others, one must account for the existence of those others in one's own awareness
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    • 3.Accounting for others in one's awareness implies that the self is relational
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    • 1.Awareness of others as obstacles or instruments does not entail recognition of others as constitutive of the self.
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    • 2.Sartrean bad faith demonstrates that the ego can systematically misuse awareness of others to reinforce solipsistic self-enclosure rather than relational opening.
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    • 3.A narcissistic mindset can thus achieve stable self-grounding precisely through its instrumentalization of others, never requiring the Confucian relational turn.
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    • 1.Buddhist anattā doctrine holds that the very notion of a self requiring relational grounding remains a cognitive error, not a developmental stage toward wisdom.
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    • 2.If the narcissistic level and the Confucian relational level both presuppose a substantive self, they occupy the same ontological mistake rather than a developmental hierarchy.
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    In determining his rankings, for each level Kūkai asked whether that mindset could establish its own ground within its own terms. For example, to put one’s own interest above others, the narcissistic mindset (level one) must account for the existence of those others in one’s own awareness. That, in turn, leads to an understanding that the self must be relational, a fundamental assumption of the Confucian mindset found in level two. That is, even the egoism of narcissism, upon examination, assume
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