Killing the ego

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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'. (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.

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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