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The infinitly deficient ego
banned_crab
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Beyond all desire and attachment ive noticed that it all begins with ego deficiency. You simply desire more to raise your sense of self and status. When I experience suffering it is because of an ego deficiency that I am resisting. When we see beauty we desire to hold on to it because we think it will satisfy this deficiency.
What do you usually do about the ego deficiency game?
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Stop Calm Rest Heal ~Thich Nhat Hanh
Use the ego chatter as a soul-searching tool, which invariably leads to the conclusion that we have within ourselves all we need to be perfectly happy.
But as usual, it will take several more threads on your part before this truth hits home.
So true. It has taken me patience and sustained effort to see this truth myself-but it is worth it.
** "We tend to be particularly unaware that we are thinking virtually all the time. The incessant stream of thoughts flowing through our minds leaves us very little respite for inner quiet. And we leave precious little room for ourselves anyway just to be, without having to run around doing things all the time. Our actions are all too frequently driven rather than undertaken in awareness, driven by those perfectly ordinary thoughts and impulses that run through the mind like a coursing river, if not a waterfall. We get
caught up in the torrent and it winds up submerging our lives as it carries us to places we may not wish to go and may not even realize we are headed for. Meditation means learning how to get out of this current, sit by its bank and listen to it, learn from it, and then use its energies to guide us rather than to tyrannize us. This process doesn't magically happen by itself. It takes energy. We call the effort to cultivate our ability to be in the present moment "practice" or "meditation practice."
Jon Kabot-Zinn**
@heyimacrab
The inertia of ignorance that anything can be apart from existence, is the force that
initiated our birth. Our human condition is a description of our innate response to that delusive belief. The ego is the word we use for that habitual coping mechanism that manipulates all of our sense data to support the adversarial concept that it's us against the rest of the world.
When we learn how to stop trying to manipulate phenomena (meditation), the basis for maintaining the ego's adversarial position loses it's power and fades accordingly.
A Buddhist practice is all about awakening from our ego's dream of it's own delusionary fiefdom.
I dont understand why you attack my threads.
Funny how we never complain when we are unfairly praised . . . but . . . understandable . . . :buck: . . .
I don't attack your threads. It's just that you keep turning in circles without coming out of your own maze.
I'm 100 % sure you don't even bother to practice. Always navel-gazing and poor-meing.
Fortunately, puberty comes with an expiration date. Unless that expiration date is long overdue...
@Heyiamacrab, it may serve you better to analyse how far your practice has got you.
What have you learned so far as a member, here?
How much of it has been beneficial to your practice?
What does your practice consist of, exactly?
lets get back to basics @heyimacrab It may help explain why there are responses to your thread that you don't care for..here is your OP.
I did not reply because built into it is a term that has no clear meaning in Buddhism.
So tell me..what do you mean by ' ego ' ?.. ( Don't assume its self explanatory. In terms of Buddhism, it isn't ).