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Would world become better if there were no Ego??? How to overcome "ego" ???
Often I observe how EGO doesn’t allow people to do a social good …
And often think that world might become better if people were less Egocentric.
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Ed Schulte 50+
ANE Chapter 2 “The Current State of Humanity”
But we cannot really honor things if we use them as a means to self-enhancement, that is to say, if we try to find ourselves through them. This is exactly what the ego does. Ego-identification with things creates attachment to things, obsession with things, which in turn creates our consumer society and economic structures where the only measure of progress is always more. The unchecked striving for more, for endless growth, is a dysfunction and a disease. It is the same dysfunction the cancerous cell manifests, whose only goal is to multiply itself, unaware that it is bringing about its own destruction by destroying the organism of which it is a part. Some economists are so attached to the notion of growth that they can’t let go of that word, so they refer to recession as a time of “negative growth.”
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“Whatever the ego seeks and gets attached to are substitutes for the Being that it cannot feel. You can value and care for things, but whenever you get attached to them, you will know it’s the ego. And you are never really attached to a thing but to a thought that has ‘I,’ ‘me,’ or ‘mine’ in it. Whenever you completely accept a loss, you go beyond ego, and who you are, the I Am which is consciousness itself, emerges.”
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Is it wrong then to be proud of one’s possessions or to feel resentful toward people to have more than you? Not at all. That sense of pride, of needing to stand out, the apparent enhancement of one’s self through “more than” and diminishment through “less than” is neither right nor wrong – it is the ego. The ego isn’t wrong; it’s just unconscious. When you observe the ego in yourself, you are beginning to go beyond it. Don’t take the ego too seriously.
Kristine Sargsyan 500+
Thanks a lot!!!,
Ed Schulte 50+
yes there are a few but none so available ( as in free of the wed network) and yet so clear and NOT leading one further in and Strengthening the Ego.
By that I am referring to the set Help and New Age Spiritual "Industry" loaded with recommendation of how to "kill the ego" etc etc which is nothing but another Trick Ego uses to survive.
What I post was simply notes used as part of an ongoing sharing group formed around Tolles works we continue it along with the ET-TV and other parallels such as HHtDL 's "how to be compassionate" ( tother recommendation ) the purpose is to "disentangle" as ET says ( see full quote below) which can only be do by, as others have said here "know thy self" .....which if one is to be complete about it "know thy self from within thy Greater Self" Capital "S"elf being that which you always were, always will be, and ego itself ? a shell-with no energy feeding it
"When you don’t cover up the world with words and labels, a sense of the miraculous returns to your life that was lost a long time ago when humanity, instead of using thought, became possessed by thought. A depth returns to your life. Things regain their newness, their freshness. And the greatest miracle is the experiencing of your essential self as prior to any words, thoughts, mental labels, and images. For this to happen, you need to disentangle your sense of I, of Beingness, from all the things it has become mixed up with, that is to say, identified with. That disentanglement is what this book is about." ...The ego isn't wrong; it's just unconscious. When you observe the ego in yourself, you are beginning to go beyond it. Don't take the ego too seriously. When you detect egoic behavior in yourself, smile. At times you may even laugh. How could humanity have been taken in by this for so long? Above all, know that the ego isn't personal. It isn't who you are. If you consider the ego to be your personal problem, that's just more ego
Ed Schulte 50+
I pointed to HHtDL's 'How to be compassionate" . Of course he too address Ego but he does also go a great depth into ...Ego wants vs True Self and its desire(s) ...Because he does this first, like the Christian Mystic Daskalos (I suspect there are Researcher of Truth Circles in your area) he can uses the 'word' Ego in TWO completely different contexts ...
so one has to have a solid understanding of the True nature and Structure of Consciousness tucked away before discussing Ego or it will quickly become an Egoic exercise :-(
Here is an example quote. from 'How to be Compassionate'
A STRONG WILL
It is important to aspire to bring about the well-being of others, and to develop that desire so that it becomes stronger and stronger. This is not attachment because it is not mixed with afflictive emotions. This strong aspiration arises from detachment.
A strong ego is needed for this work, without your becoming egotistical. You need a strong will to achieve good. I t is helpful to make a wish to develop a strong self in order to be able to help all beings, for a weak self could never bring your virtuous intentions to fruition. This kind of desire is reasonable and does not involve attachment. It is the one to adopt in your practice.
Unreasonable desire is to be diminished and discarded because of its narrowness.