Comments on: Musings About The Ego – Or, What Is Ego? Arpana reflects…

By: satchit

satchit — Thu, 02 May 2019 13:16:06 +0000

How do I know, Lokesh?

Because I trust my intuition.

By: Lokesh

Lokesh — Thu, 02 May 2019 12:10:12 +0000

Satchit, how do you know if I am joking or not?

By: Arpana

Arpana — Thu, 02 May 2019 11:49:49 +0000

SD said, ”Resulting lightness is worth it.”

Although I have struggled at times to come to terms with the loss of ‘friendships’ that only worked as long as I clung to that ‘buffoon’ we call the ego, but it gets easier.

Quality not quantity now. Only growing up really. Nothing to feel bad about, nothing to create a negative ego out of. (ツ) ✌

By: satyadeva

satyadeva — Thu, 02 May 2019 11:40:36 +0000

Welcome to the world of ‘emotional death’, Arps! That’s what I mean by ‘dismantling’ the ‘ego’, the self-made ‘self’.

Thing is, once it’s been demonstrated like in this classic example, it’s harder to resist than to give up, surrender one’s ‘position’. And the resulting lightness is worth it, isn’t it?

By: Arpana

Arpana — Thu, 02 May 2019 11:32:25 +0000

After I first watched the video I recall a brief moment of struggling to avoid facing up to the fact this applied to me as well, at times; followed by a moment of getting to know chagrin really well.

He smiles and shrugs ruefully.
┐(‘～`；)┌

By: satyadeva

satyadeva — Thu, 02 May 2019 11:26:59 +0000

Excellent, Arps! I’ve already used it to help defuse a tricky impasse with a friend after, er, ‘ducking the issue’ for a month or so, ‘thinking about it’ (in the usual way).

By: Arpana

Arpana — Thu, 02 May 2019 10:10:04 +0000

I always liked this Eckhart Tolle story…

https://youtu.be/1Pkbk2JCPgU

By: Arpana

Arpana — Thu, 02 May 2019 10:08:00 +0000

Me and Friends of THIS and THAT.

I go to a play-reading group every week, and the group is singularly lacking in one-upmanship. We are all getting older, all had lives, and so we just put out to the group our perceptions; and we all seem to find what each other has to say interesting.

Same with Sannyas News at best.

A viewpoint shared without aggression might be interesting to some, not all.

Interesting question. Got me musing.

By: satchit

satchit — Thu, 02 May 2019 05:05:12 +0000

I was only joking, Lokesh.

Do you think you have the authority to explain me ‘enlightenment’ without being enlightened yourself?

As far as I see, it is much related to choicelessness.

By: madhu dagmar frantzen

madhu dagmar frantzen — Thu, 02 May 2019 02:46:33 +0000

P.P.S:
And I´d also like to recommend at this point, watching and listening to a talk which Eckhart Tolle gave (2014) at the Google Wisdom 2.0 conference with Karen May:
https://youtu.be/fp0gaxFxbB4