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"Get over yourself"

thickpaperthickpaper Veteran
edited July 2011 in Buddhism Basics
The expression "get over yourself" is pretty common.

It strikes me it also packs a lot of dharma instruction in it to, and at more than one level.

Ignorance of Egolessness. Over seriousness. Self-cherishing.Unmidnfullness. Pride... etc These are all common ailments that can be cured by getting over oneself.

:)


Comments

  • mugzymugzy Veteran
    Good point!
  • taiyakitaiyaki Veteran
    i've been using the mantra: it is what it is.

    so far it's been working.
  • santhisouksanthisouk Veteran
    "Just face yourself" is a good one too.
  • PeacefulAssemblyChurPeacefulAssemblyChur
    Thanks. Good stuff to practice. :)
  • jlljll Veteran
    This being a Buddhist website, there sure is a lot of ego here.
  • thickpaperthickpaper Veteran
    edited July 2011
    This being a Buddhist website, there sure is a lot of ego here.
    @Jil, G... oh never mind;)
  • federicafederica Seeker of the clear blue sky... Its better to remain silent and be thought a fool, than to speak out and remove all doubt Moderator
    This being a Buddhist website, there sure is a lot of ego here.
    Yeah, I can't think of a better place to dump it.


  • taiyakitaiyaki Veteran
    leggo of my eggo
  • genkakugenkaku Northampton, Mass. U.S.A. Veteran
    My teacher, Kyudo Nakagawa Roshi, once commented, "Without ego, nothing gets done."

    Ego deserves a little more care than simply treating it like the bad boy who sits in the back of the class shooting spitballs and is sent to detention. On the one hand, all things change, so what is generally referred to as ego -- the me and mine, you and yours -- is a fiction. And also there is intention and action that betokens something or someone that wants.

    Those who say there is "no self" are faced with an inevitable challenge: Prove it. The same challenge, it turns out, that confronts the person who asserts there is a self.
  • DaozenDaozen Veteran
    Sounds very Australian. We often take people down a notch if it's felt they're a getting big-headed. Just something in our culture i guess, although our national love of meat pies (personally i'm veg-aquarian) is not so Buddhist ..



  • personperson Don't believe everything you think The liminal space Veteran
    Recently I heard a quote that says:

    "The purpose of life isn't to find ourselves.
    The purpose of life is to lose ourselves."
  • taiyakitaiyaki Veteran
    "to study buddhism is to study the self. to study the self is to forget the self. to forget the self is to be confirmed by all things." - Dogen
  • thickpaperthickpaper Veteran
    @Daozen

    "veg-aquarian"

    OMG that's awesome! I am "pescatarian" which is a very awkward term that brings confused looks. Not any more, Danke, I am a veg-aquarian!

    Ha!


    High-5!
  • thickpaperthickpaper Veteran
    Ego deserves a little more care than simply treating it like the bad boy who sits in the back of the class shooting spitballs and is sent to detention.
    @genkaku, I agree with the above. The illusionary Ego is more than a bad boy, it's a snake and fool and a tyrant and a &^%$. It needs to be exterminated, vaccinated against, obliterated, not merely sent away.

    >>>On the one hand, all things change, so what is generally referred to as ego -- the me and mine, you and yours -- is a fiction.

    In my understanding impermanence is not what makes the ego a fiction, but emptiness.

    >>>Those who say there is "no self" are faced with an inevitable challenge: Prove it.

    That is very easy to do, imo. It can be done by kids using philosophy, meditation by experts (I am told) or scientists by evidence.

    >>>The same challenge, it turns out, that confronts the person who asserts there is a self.

    I don't think so. There is no challenge here or with the imponderables.




  • taiyakitaiyaki Veteran
    "the self is relational. who discover the self in the relationship with the world. the engaging in the world mirrors who you are. " - Gil Fronsdal.

  • santhisouksanthisouk Veteran
    edited July 2011
    One who questions non-self is one who questions their actions.
  • genkakugenkaku Northampton, Mass. U.S.A. Veteran
    The illusionary Ego is more than a bad boy, it's a snake and fool and a tyrant and a &^%$. It needs to be exterminated, vaccinated against, obliterated, not merely sent away.
    ___________________
    @thickpaper -- What an ego-boost!
  • thickpaperthickpaper Veteran
    The illusionary Ego is more than a bad boy, it's a snake and fool and a tyrant and a &^%$. It needs to be exterminated, vaccinated against, obliterated, not merely sent away.
    ___________________
    @thickpaper -- What an ego-boost!

    *bows in the presence of the Tagathas*

    ;)
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