Re : Non-Existing Ego

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De : epston

À : Nisargadatta

Envoyé le : Jeudi, 27 Avril 2006, 12h37mn 01s

Objet : Re: Non-Existing Ego

 

Very cunning indeed. This belief guarantees ego will never be

understood, cause: it cannot be observed when it is functioning,

it can only be observed when it is not functioning. This comes down

to suppression, because this is what so called silent mind is.

The function of ego is being suppressed temporary in some kind

of " meditation " , and when the ego is safely hidden and suppressed,

then the " intuition " is there to understand what it cannot see,

because it is suppressed in name of a silent mind. Genius! ;-)

Meditation is a foolish and useless occupation without understanding

the ego, and a silent mind is ego in disguise. Therefore meditation

must be the observation of the ego in action. Only when this

movement is understood and dissolved, the silence can be present.

 

Len

 

L.E: Obviously you have never meditated or if you have, you're teacher was

inadequate.

It's not only that I disagree with you, your ideas about meditation and the ego

are dead wrong. " A silent mind is ego in disguise, " you write. How and where

do you get this opinion?

Does it have any basis of experience in it? Perhaps your mind, self is so

active with energy that you are unable to relax and sit still so you have these

opinions that there is no value to it. I don't know what you have done, and can

only evaluate from the words you write.

You can never understand the ego with the ego, and mind is hidden but when you

stop trying to do what is impossible to do, you may just let go and relax, or

maybe the truth of things will just come upon you as an undeserved response to

your stubboness.

Remember the story of Saul on the road to Damascus. It's probably just a story,

but the enemy of Jesus changed into the chief advocate of Jesus due to an

unexpected inner experience. Perhaps that will happen to you and you will

change your view of things.

It is possible although unlikely. Stubborn ignorant people often go to the the

grave proclaiming their " white superiority, " " anti-semitism " " profit-directed "

lives with no changes as they fade away. So even death is no gurrantor of

wisdom. But even the ignorant, foolish and insane are part of, and an

_expression of, LIFE ITSELF, and all are included in the Oneness of Everything.

 

Larry Epston

www.epston.com

 

Len must be playing!

And he is making you all write mighty interesting stuff.

Thank-you Len for your generous contributions.

 

Patricia