SHORTY+SHOUTOUT: Enlivening is not inner thriving.

"Enlivening is not inner thriving. If you don't have enough inner thriving and depend too much on enlivening, then it's a shallow world."

A commentary of trolls on the internet, but also the practice in general of praising your own views and denigrating others. For them, it is enlivening and can make them feel powerful. But it's not very fulfilling.

I would extend the "enlivening" label to the clinging to sensual pleasures.

https://www.audiodharma.org/talks/audio_player/10715.html

-Gil Fronsdal