I am sorry for my late response. I am afraid I can only give a very brief reply because I will make some preparation for a party in this evening.
Yes, there is always some subtle motives, usually subconsciously, when we do something. and I agree with you that most of our behaviors are only to meet our psychological needs, to fill our inner emptiness, insufficiency, to fulfill ourselves...
To observe ourselves is to be aware of our true motives under the covering of some superficial reasons, explanations, etc. Once we begin to know a little bit of the motives , it is very easy for us to fall into a duality: identification/justification, and condemnation/escape/suppression. It seems to me that your so-called intentional filling the inner vanity is very close to justification, which means that your inner vanity has excellent and persuasive reasons to continue, so I must meet it endlessly.
Just observe your mind carefully, see if that is what is happening. If you find out that truth, it is almost your immediate action to condemn the inner vanity and make your mind to fight against it. Unfortunately that will strengthen the vanity, it is not difficult to understand.
K told us that either justification and condemnation is correct, because they are all efforts, activities(you-wei). Just keep you mind in passive(Wu-wei) alertness, awareness, observation without justification, without condemnation, without a target to fight against... maybe something subtle will happen spontaneously and the inner vanity will unfold by itself.
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今天群主分享的文字，选自克写给传记作者 Lutyens的一篇文章《克里希那穆提教诲的核心》，原文如下：
Man has built in himself images as a fence of security - religious, political, personal. These manifest as symbols, ideas, beliefs. The burden of these images dominates man's thinking, his relationships, and his daily life. These images are the causes of our problems for they divide man from man.
【书译】人为自己建立了各种意象，以充当安全的围墙——宗教、政治和个人方面安全的围墙。它们以符号、观念、信仰的形式出现。这些意象的包袱，支配着人的思想、他的关系，以及他的日常生活。这些意象是我们问题的根源，因为它们把人与人分割开来。
【海译】人在内心构建了宗教的、政治的与个人的安全防护墙的心象，表现为各种信条、理念与信仰。这些心象如同心灵的重负，操控着人的思维、关系与日常生活，是各种问题的起源，因为这些心象将人与人隔离开来。
【译按】意象，原文是image。去年我闲暇翻译时用了“心象”一词，基本一样。
symbol的基本字义是符号，不过在宗教、精神领域，这个词可以具体地指“信条信仰”，这个字义在权威的韦氏词典和陆谷孙英汉大词典中有明确收录，翻译成“信条”才能与ideas（理念），beliefs（信仰）相对等。
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