A New Earth, Eckhart Tolle & Oprah Discuss How the Ego Leads to Human Suffering-Insight From Buddha

Published Monday, August 3, 2009 by domsoyomtbjnns | E-mail this post

When reviewing chapter 3 of Eckhart Tolle's book Albergo Italia Abruzzo New Earth on Oprah's online course by way of skype, Christmas Dish Disney two discussed the almighty ego in all of us.

Oprah began, "Learning to manage D Lab ego is what this book is all about."

Tolle: "Yes and going beyond ego at the same time means going beyond what the Buddha described the normal human Bike Davidson Harley Mini - one of suffering. Because ultimately the ego sooner or Virtually There Sabre usually sooner, always produces some form of suffering."

It's amazing how persistent the ego is in its quest to exert itself over us and dominate our lives in an attempt to exalt itself. When we yield to the egoic mind or "carnal mind" as the Bible calls it, we give place to it to embody and possess us.

If we don't distinguish and differentiate between ourselves and our thought processes, the egoic mind will quickly seduce and enslave us. This happens when we take ownership of the innumerable egoic and self-exalting thoughts circulating through our mind and thereafter attach our own identity to them.

It's as if we Cricket Phone Service "run amuck" with our ego and thereby allowed it to be in the driver's seat of our life taking us wherever it will. The final destination is usually always sorrowful and destructive, because we cannot effectively and successfully collectively live in society when we are entirely fixated on ourselves.

The egoic mind tends toward self-exaltation, acquisition of illusory identity enhancers, comparison, labeling, complaining, condemning, and control. All of these create and equate to high amounts of stress, which are entirely unmanageable for the human soul. Is it any wander why people therefore have emotional breakdowns?

It has Ambachtelijk Kaas said by people that at times of increased stress and emotional turmoil, "I'm going to lose my mind." Well, that honestly could be the best thing that every happened to one bound and possessed by their egoic mind. To relinquish control and detach themselves from the incessant and persistent egoic mind that troubles them would be nirvana in itself.

God never intended us to live our lives in our mind. God is a Spirit (John 4:24) and therefore is omniscient and omnipotent. When we enter the realm of the spirit there is life flow and far less thinking. Many experience paralysis in their life by way of excessive mental analysis, being overly encumbered by their mental process.

Jesus said, "For whosoever will save his life shall lose it: and whosoever will lose his life for My sake shall find it" (Matthew 16:25).

When human beings get taken over by their ego, their whole life purpose tends toward self-exaltation and self-preservation. You can see it when families or several couples get together to enjoy dinner. There will arise Prince Of Peace Lutheran Church the ego of some individuals a fighting and striving as to where the dinner will be eaten, at what time dinner shall occur, and who and how the dinner shall be paid for.

Being unable to let go and fully enjoy the experience, the ego diminishes and dwarfs human potential. Ironically, the ego leads us to believe that it is looking out for our best interest. However in reality the ego thwarts meaningful relationship, professional advancement, and spiritual development.

The remedy therefore is to do what Jesus said, "Take up your cross and deny yourself" (see Matthew 16:24). The denial begins in the battleground of the mind. Jesus Himself was crucified at Golgotha, the place of the skull (Matthew 27:33). This spiritually speaking is our way into the realm of the spirit, when we too crucify our egoic mind and the restless thoughts continually circulating therein. Upon crucifying and dying to our egoic mind, the life of the spirit within can arise and provide newness of life.

Hence we can transcend the ego, be enlightened, and open up to the realm of the spirit where true life is found and enjoyed.

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