The Art of Happiness

negative way. It is based on sound reasons. So,here, I would consider them to be verycourageous—I would consider them to beheroes.”“Well, for a great spiritual master what mayappear on the surface to be a form of arrogancemay in fact be a kind of self-confidence andcourage,” I allowed. “But for normal people,under everyday circumstances, the opposite ismore likely to occur—someone appears to havestrong self-confidence or high self-esteem, but itcan be in reality simply arrogance. I understandthat according to Buddhism, arrogance iscategorized as one of the ‘basic afflictedemotions.’ In fact, I’ve read that according toone system, they list seven different types ofarrogance. So, avoiding or overcomingarrogance is considered very important. But so is