Comments on: Freedom from ego

By: bridesmaiddresses

bridesmaiddresses — Mon, 17 Jan 2011 06:31:38 +0000

Save bonnets, outrageous headpieces and feathered gloves for the theater.

By: kshatriya

kshatriya — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 13:47:55 +0000

Jack Spratt Says:
June 24th, 2009 at 7:44 am

The Never Ending Story is explicitly told in one word:

Love

By: Jack Spratt

Jack Spratt — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 12:44:01 +0000

Divine Master
be my brother
& friend
Forgive my abuse of this forum since I do not know nor have the time to figure out the mechanics of formally joining you.
http://my.care2.com/jack4spratt
Least you think this an advertisement for myself
without apology I share the same Author as you
your tradition may sound, look and be quite different
but we are one in the same creation

The Never Ending Story is explicitly told in one word:
Love
In that word we join with the Creator who in some traditions is called “God” and become infinite
with Creation and “God”
The greatest axiom: “You become what you love” is for me only found in abject poverty of both spirit and ego.
In my experience I discovered this not upon my knees in supplication/contemplation/meditation but upon my back as child, boy and man utterly helpless to forestall or negotiate my annihilation. The terror I felt was articulated in single words now strung together as my only & answered prayer.
Addictions to various things: my mother first, then sex, my identity bourn by my children, my wealth and health and youth are taken from me . . . an after thought I threw my sexual identity into the fire
and in that abject poverty; as in Blessed are the poor in spirit; did I begin to experience what I longed for: To see, follow and love more dearly that which loved me all along as does the Creator of us all.
Forgive my trespass for I recognize a perverse/inverse vanity within me
a very dark side

By: carlos llanos

carlos llanos — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 08:09:32 +0000

when you think with prejudice you are erasing the other
posibilities available, the same thing does the ego with
God or the One

By: RAZ

RAZ — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 03:39:23 +0000

Yes…true it is…thank you 🙂

By: liberatedself

liberatedself — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 02:28:29 +0000

The way in which I’ve read in respect to trying to stop the ego, is like going
against the current of a raging river, the more you fight it, the rougher it gets
on you, the more tired you get, and the more the river binds you. Go with the flow
as in… be aware of the mechanism of the ego, take note of it, there is no need
to put effort into restricting or trying to stop it. It will lose its grip as soon as you
are aware or awake to it.

Like Anthony De Mello says, “Before i was liberated, i was depressed, after I was
liberated, depression was still there.” But theres a difference, because of your
awareness that it is not a part of you, it no longer has the the power that we give it
to affect you. Feelings and emotions are a naturally part of being human, and
definitely can be enjoyed, but know that they are not you, that you are so much more
and much more beautiful. That One in which you refer to… that known unknown,
that thing in which cannot be explained by the mind. <3