Thank you for this thought provoking blog.

I guess our problems are 'facts and fakes'. How to tell which is which in these modern days. How do we justify looking only inwards (on ourselves) in isolation of (our 'chosen'/biased, external) environment. Is our introspection merely a denial of our own reality because no one exists by oneself.

Yet being underground/mud (isolated, enclosed, sleeping,...) is บัวที่อยู่ในตม.

And being over water (seeing light, awaken, exposed to environment) is  บัวที่อยู่เหนือน้ำ.

No doubts, hours will spent on debating the paradox of real self, knowing true self and living with self.