Guest guest Posted October 27, 2008 Report Share Posted October 27, 2008 , " Tony OClery " <aoclery wrote: , " alan jacobs " <alanadamsjacobs@> wrote: > > ,Dear friends, > > In my opinion > > 1. The ego is naturally formed by Consciousness identifying with the mind and body at an > early age, and at this stage it is necessary in order to live. > > 2. When the ego becomes mature and starts to see through the charade of life, its most > intelligent part, intellectual discrimination, starts seeking for a solution to its life of rare > joys and more frequent suffering. > > 3. Through Grace it eventually comes into touch with this Teaching and then becomes the > spring board for diving into the heart searching for its own source, or mistaken identity as > a separate egotistic individual. > > 4. After Self Realisation the ego is consumed in the Heart . The Jnani then lives from the > Self which contains the attributes of intelligence, discrimination, dispassion and > unconditional love . > > 5.He now lives from what is termed the 'no mind state' i.e. the non egotistic state, quite > satisfactorily in the apparant world, egolessly. The ego is then not needed to live, nor is it > available. > > Alan Namaste, Depends what one means by ego....The animals have the same tool, and it is used to react to danger and to fear. An animal knows when it is being threatened and takes appropriate action.. This reaction in humans has been grossly expanded and so is now the 'EGO' where the mind and desire is identifying with a reactive mechanism and that's all it is....Cheers Tony. --- End forwarded message --- Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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