Ego Trying to Transcend Ego

Holy cow! So you closed your youtube acount?!

buddhacious,
Hmmm. I usually find myself more troubled when I try too hard to find meaning in the various parts of the world around me. Often things are just as they are. If I accept that and move on to those areas where I can make changes or can improve myself, then I am better off. I am also better prepared to deal with this amazing place in which we all exist.

Bad things do happen to good people and there is not always an explanation that I can get my mind around. I can dwell on it, but nothing will change; I can push ahead in all the realms that I do recognise - exercise in the physical world, create, reach out to others and I can take my bearings, so I can at least understand the direction that I am heading.

namaste,
tom

I think I hear you, Mathew. A person needs meaning, and yet each new meaning is found to be an illusion. So why not forgoe any search for meaning? It tends to end in nihilism in my experience, a deadening, a lifelessness, the wrong kind of aimlessness. I know that any personal goals will come up empty, but, whenever they do, I try to come back with deeper authenticity. I think part of the trouble is most people are working with an ego/absolute model. What's connecting the two? The evolutionary impulse? I try to act from Being, myself, which I don't believe has any fear or desire and yet acts in a positive, evolutionary way.

One of the troubles with transcending ego is that it can just give rise to the superego. I'm just starting to work with that, so I don't really have much to say about it, although I know the superego is a real son of a  ^*^*%   . : )  Almaas talks about “open inquiry,” “the journey without a goal,” and this makes some sense to me, although I think there needs to be some intention in there or else a person ends up in relativistic madness.

I think the important thing, since we have so many choices, is to be clear on what's most important and not let anything distract us too much. That's something I get here, but other people talk about it as well. This is a pretty lucid teaching too, I think. Our culture basically supports our biological/emotional impulses, so when we attempt to trancend our personal intention needs to be extra strong, and, of course, a sangha can help a lot.

~ David

Hey, I just read this on the Rhidwan School website:

“To effectively engage the spiritual quest, our motivation needs to be a deepening love and desire for truth, freedom, God, enlightenment or liberation. Tenderness and passion need to come together as Eros, the magnetic love that can lead to uniting our soul with its True Nature. This expression of spiritual presence also underlies the drive for union that we human beings think of as sexual love.”
 
Last night I was reading the “Journey without a goal” section of Spacecruiser Inquiry, a pretty cool book, but I wasn't quite sure what he meant by this, but the above quote helped.

David

A new approach?  Come to India and wander with me.  Let it go.

Focus on your career path. The path of love (with women and others) will follow naturally. Improve any area of your life and all other areas will improve. Don't just think “thou art that”, BE it. Meaning: push through the discomfort of learning to strike up a conversation with complete strangers. Know it is an art and a skill that can be learned. Learn to navigate the human network, it is the single most important skill for an individual to have. Everything else will fall into place.

I've been there…Stop trying so hard :)
You cannot drive a nail into empty space, a zen master once said…
Indeed, no matter how hard you try, the efforts will not bear fruit.

So instead of trying to make the ocean drink itself, just let go…

Breathe, smile, laugh, sing, dance, cry, write, speak, express yourself in wichever way you wish! Life is NOW, and it is precious, experience it to its fullest potential.

Stop asking questions for the sake of asking questions, to have a reason to look further in this rollercoster some call 'spiritual search'.

It really is very simple, once you let go

Be Happy my friend ! :)

Alex

For buddha's sakes, just put the books down and start living in each moment. It would be so pretty and nice to say “cheer up, everything is ok, so and so says this, so and so says that”, but the truth is you already know all of that. You already know all the concepts and the theories and the methods. SO, START LIVING!!  How: PAY ATTENTION, Who/What: YOU, Where: HERE, When: NOW. There is no “why”, in each moment there is only the choice of who/what, how, where, and when. Why waste more time with the “whys”??? You know the “whys” arise from emptiness and end in emptiness. What's more to know about “why”??? Even all this need to say and express something arises from emptiness/nothingness and will end in emptiness/nothingness. All there is to say and express is “emptiness” and empty words and ideas from a “self” that is also empty. Why waste more time learning more concepts and theories? Change is happening each moment, are you paying attention to it or are you lost trying to find more labels to describe that which changes constantly? How much time do we have left to live?? should we use the life we have left for living our lives or looking for more concepts and answering “whys”??? Nobody is getting any younger by the moment, but we are all getting older and dying slowly.. so “why” waste whatever time we have left? There are so many things happening each moment inside and outside our bodies, how much attention are you paying to it??? Look at all that breathing in and breathing out. You breathe in and when it gets uncomfortable and you have to breathe out. You breathe out and when it gets uncomfortable you have to breath in all over again, such a constant pain. How's that for a “why”??? What is that telling you? Is it telling you to find more concepts and theories to define it or is it telling you to pay attention to it?? We eat something “nice” from one end, and it comes out “nasty” from another end. What is that telling you?? Is it telling you to find more concepts and theories to define it or is it telling you to pay attention to it??

E

come on your fine. so ahead of the norm. meaning schmeaning. at least your very coherent with your confusion. i feel like i want to take take a hammer and bash it into my head sometimes.

suggestions.. deepen what you are doing. look at things from even more angles, which you are probably doing already. all with a grain of salt. every last bit of it until you can do nothing but surrender.. in a sense

didn’t realize that this pst was over 3 monthes. disregaurd if it’s ireelevant