Killing the ego

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RamanaMaharshi, Nasrudin <nasrudin3>

wrote:

> Although Ramana spoke of killing the ego, he explained

> this in different ways.Such as 'There is no ego, so it

> cannot be killed'. 'The ego never had any reality

> apart from the Self. 'Killing' it does not involve

> thoughts of hatred towards it, it may be killed simply

> by searching its origin and finding it to have no

> independant existence'.

 

Another possibility is to cease believing in it. When we stop

believing in the importance/existance/power/presence, etc. of a so-

called ego it vanishes or becomes a small unimportant figure in the

background of life. It has been our habitual belief in this pseudo

personality/egoic self, from very early childhood that has maintained

its reality and power over us, so the moment we stop believing in it

and taking it seriously - like the Boogie Man - or fear of the dark,

we are set free to simply and happily be.

 

(These are not exact quotes,

> only the meanings). In the allegory of Buddha climbing

> Mount Meru with his beloved dog, the dog represents

> 'the common touch'; the compassion and humanity which

> have not been eradicated on the path to enlightenment;

> the heart which persists for man's protection, as does

> individuality, together with the divine bliss and

> emancipation of samadhi.

> Buddha reaches the austere summit of the mountain, but

> is told by the angel there only he has earned the

> merit to enter, and his undeveloped dog must stay

> behind. The Buddha then says that he will not enter

> under this condition, and will renounce Nirvana. The

> dog then becomes the angel, and tells the Buddha that,

> unless he had passed the final test in so deciding, he

> would not have been allowed in.

 

There is a branch of psychology which examines our sub-personalities

which we are accustomed to calling the ego - actually several

subpersonalities or selves such as The Critic, The Rebel, The Bumb,

The Caretaker, etc. and it is taught that we need to recogize and

embrace or incorporate all the various parts of our selves that have

been pushed away or rejected by us through life. We are encouraged

to accept our parts and become whole instead of trying to enter

heaven with pieces of us missing. Buddha could not have entered

without the undeveloped dog part of him because he would not have

been whole enough. When we accept whatever part of us (ego, etc.)

that we have tossed away or turned on, we do become whole, happy,

balanced, complete, full, etc. and then we have "entered", otherwise

we can not "enter" since some of ourself is still elsewhere. One

Consciousness must include everything that is which it does, so to

acctually be One Consciousness, we must accept and embrace - not

reject, ignore, kill, imprison - all that is us-Consciousness.

 

 

> The ego notion is enshrined in the mythology of

> several cultures; it is for example the 'Taniwha' of

> the Maori. One particular taniwha, called hotu-puku

> (longing for experience) was dreaded for swallowing

> people. It is finally caught in a net by villagers,

> and, cut open, found to contain many different kinds

> of people - warriors, leaders, women, tohungas, etc.

> This of course, though derided as superstition, is

> none other than the Christian notion of the

> Ressurrection of the Dead.The recovery of memory of

> past lives when the ego is dead, and these memories

> can be used. "I shall make thee a pillar of the

> temple, and thou shalt go forth hence no more" -as it

> is put in Revelations.

> Nasrudin

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