To: K-list
Recieved: 1999/09/20 04:49
Subject: Re: [K-list] seemingly stupid questions about K
From: luz .
On 1999/09/20 04:49, luz . posted thus to the K-list:
The way I understand it is that what is meant by the ego is an excessive
importance put on your own self-image and the image other people have of
you. Which could definitely be called limiting ;)
If you spend all your energy in fostering a 'good' image of yourself in
other's minds as a Spiritual Person, a Wise Teacher, a SmartFunnyWarm
person, whatever, then you're spending your energy on something that is
unreal, constructed, and actually binds you, holds you back.
Like, for example, I used to live in a town where the culture was very
'meditational' - almost 2/3 of the population practiced TM - and there was a
definite image of the perfect meditator going around. Someone who spoke
hesitatntly, in a soft voice, never got confrontational and gave the image
of 'being spiritual'. And a LOT of people were seriously bending themselves
out of shape trying to conform to this pattern, even when their natural
inclinations were totally different. One 17-year old guy I knew, for
example, used to tell everyone he was on the path of celibacy, but you could
tell he was totally desperate to go out partying and sleep with lots of
girls. He was supressing what he really was for what he felt he should be.
I don't think a lack of ego means lack of self-esteem, just a widening of
the boundaries of the self, thinking about onelself as part of the All
rather than obsessing whether ones self is 'good' or 'bad'.
So, I think that is what's meant by 'ego'. But if I got it wrong, jump in,
folks!
luv
luz
[Kundalini's] primary purpose is to "To be liberated from the limited
bounds of the self-centered
and alienated ego. I have heard much talk among
the list about ridding oneself of Ego but to be quite honest I have never
really fully understood the necessity of ridding it completely. Life based
of materials, power and icons I realize is by no means a healthy existance
but isn't Ego a necessary component of self-maintance. By my understanding
of Ego it, when in moderation, functions to maintain balance of self. I
seem to relate a complete lack of ego with maybe no self esteem and
stuff...isnt ego the way we view ourselves and the ways which we all project
that view to other people? I can see how this world may be suffering from a
few ego problems whereby it is basing EVERYTHING on pleasing the ego, but
that hardly makes the ego bad right?
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