How do you feel about this?

Discussion in 'Yoga and Meditation' started by floes, May 3, 2011.

  1. floes

    floes Senior Member

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    I thought it was pretty nice thing someone created, at least a positive step forward in the right direction. Of course once your on the right direction you should just be making the correct decisions yourself and not limiting yourself to just those listed, but really taking yourself, and everyone eles around you furthur in the right step forward and making a difference. its just a matter of saying yes.

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  2. Chodpa

    Chodpa Senior Member

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    Where is 'soul?' Where is 'ego?' Point them out please? These conceptual charts and such are based in imagination and even if those two things could be found there is such a huge burden of concepts in this chart that it baffles the mind to even start to try to plot a lifelife as based upon it.

    Maharshi Mahesh Yogi used to say that when one becomes cosmic, then the ego has expanded to its ultimate extreme, not disappeared. In the flesh one will always have an ego - it is a mere reference point. Without it one would have no lifeline.

    My own experience is that soul is something like the inner voice which one refers to as 'I.' And ego is the sense of flow which I recognize as being a part of time and space. Neither changes ever, nor are they always the same, which means that yes the cells of the body are all replaced every seven years and yet they are always 'the body.'

    Let's take an example. You have a pepperoni pizza. Someone once said they don't like pepperoni and that people would be happier with mushroom. However, there is no mushroom, all there is is pepperoni. Do you take apart the pizza? If you do you no longer have a pizza but instead just bread with sauce on it and fucked up cheese. Nothing is identifiable any longer. So also with life. Remove ego and you have a fucked up life which cannot be amenable to identification.

    A few years back the trippers and yippies started talking about ego death, but nobody has acheived that. We hear in different Eastern traditions about reincarnation. That would pertain to the ego, or what else is individual enough to reincarnate. Many of those same traditions do not recognize a self or soul even.

    But what is your experience of these twin happinesses?
     
  3. Bitty Star Child

    Bitty Star Child Member

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    Wow, I really love that, it's really awesome and so very true
     
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