> there are multiple words for shame, but a distinction is drawn between hiri, the sense of shame that prevents one from doing wrong to begin with, and vrida, t

> there are multiple words for shame, but a distinction is drawn between hiri, the sense of shame that prevents one from doing wrong to begin with, and vrida, the shame that sets in after wrong has been done and which prompts actions of repentance. [...] but also new associations. There is a Pali word for self-loathing, omana, but this emotion is interestingly classified as a form of conceit or self-regard because it involves “a subtle form of preoccupation with the self.” Omana is an ironically proud fixation on how low and vile one is—the lowest and most vile of anyone to ever live! This can masquerade as humility, but it actually prevents the kind of humble and open-ended moral self-transformation stimulated by hiri. Aside: here vrida is clearly Sanskrit vrīḍā (व्रीडा), but hiri puzzled me until I realized it must be hrī (ह्री), that has become hiri either in the review or in the book or already in whatever Pali/Prakrit word the author picked up. Some of these distinctions are not as clear cut as claimed (there is a lot of semantic overlap etc) but nevertheless this was a great read, of what seems to be an interesting book.