Below are the best resources we could find on Ego and ego transcendence.
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Jeff Foster talks about exhaustion with spiritual seeking; how the mind is always seeking something 'out there', when the real treasure is much closer.
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Integration has become a buzzword in the world of psychedelics, but there are still questions being asked about what it means to be integrated, who can do it, and how it can be done.
A real relationship is steeped in an inner knowing of ones’ inherent value. It blooms from well-loved and maintained foundation of self-knowledge, self-respect and clear values.
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The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.
This is a clip from Hameed Ali’s (A. H. Almaas) talk at Science and Nonduality Conference 2012 in San Rafael, CA. Self can refer to our spiritual true nature as when we speak of true self, or mostly it refers to the ego self that functions as the primary impediment to spiritual realization.
The now widely known Map of calibrated levels of Consciousness was presented in Power vs. Force in 1995 and has been translated into all the world’s major languages. This was followed by The Eye of the I (2001), I: Reality and Subjectivity (2003), and Truth vs.
What is this thing we call “self”? We assemble it ourselves, according to Buddhist psychology. Gaylon Ferguson breaks down the five-step process of ego development.
A man asked Gautama Buddha, ‘I want happiness.’ Buddha said, ‘First remove ‘I,’ that’s Ego, then remove ‘want,’ that’s Desire. See, now you are left with only ‘Happiness.’
The Tibetan meditation master Chögyam Trungpa calls attention to the commonest pitfall to which everyone on the spiritual path falls prey—what he calls spiritual materialism. “The problem is that ego can convert anything to its own use,” he says, “even spirituality.
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By focusing on the fact of our entrenched conditioning and the necessity for the psyche to undergo a revolution, Krishnamurti brings us to the interface, to the source of both the individual and society.
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The fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool.
