The test for us learning to go beyond the ego state is whether any of our ‘buttons’ are being pushed. If they are then there, right ‘there’ is the learning. We should hug people who rattle our cages, they are our teachers. That is where intense ‘self inquiry’ comes in. Our world and all in it are ‘us’, aspects of ‘us’. Our job is to understand all this. Then our consciousness can expand into All that Is.
papañca
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Quote Ego could be defined as whatever covers up basic goodness. From an experiential point of view, what is ego covering up? It’s covering up our experience of just being here, just fully being where we are, so that we can relate with the immediacy of our experience. Egolessness is a state of mind that has complete confidence in the sacredness of the world. It is unconditional well being, unconditional joy that includes all the different qualities of our experience.
- Pema Chodron
It takes everything I’ve got to pull my cheek muscles into some semblance of a smile.
To feel like one just got off an all-night flight to Europe, missed my eight hours of sleep,
and landed in a time zone where daylight shines and one must participate.
……. she repeats, like my appearance is the equivalent of standing on a tabletop and yodeling
in the library …… thought we’d integrate (sorry immigrate) ….. is life purely based on a need to
know basis? I would hate to even have that thought cross my mind ….. rise to involution or evolutions highest potential …. and yet we sublime …..
Determination results from our sense of purpose. And our sense of purpose, at its best, is a projection of the Great Unconditioned Purpose into our limited world. Thus, our determination to pursue the spiritual path day-to-day and moment-to-moment is a direct manifestation of our openness to and connection …. He knows!
Material success arrives in tangible, obvious forms. Progress on the spiritual path? We may not even recognize it. Long years of uncertainty confront us. Determination sustains us through the droughts and doubts.
Two birds beautiful of wing, friends and comrades,
cling to a common tree, and one eats the sweet fruit,
the other regards him and eats not….
Where winged souls cry the discoveries of knowledge
over their portion of immortality, there the Lord of all,
the Guardian of the World took possession of me,
he the Wise, me the ignorant.
Rig Veda
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