Re: Ego elimination strategies?

On May 31, 3:53 am, "Jez" <iced_sp...@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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news:1180588096.772929.108220@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> On May 30, 10:53 pm, "Alain Reiher" <rei...@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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Snippage.....







Yet I'm not a Catholic. I implore you to provide the isolated
classical guitarist with some strategies of ego elimination, if there
are any, apart from being Catholic. The goal is to truly assess one's
skills. Feel free to riff on this however you like. Insults, sarcasm,
and the like - all are most welcome.

Go to the guitar society in your/near town and play!
It will first solve the isolation problem (If it is to be considered a
problem) and second it will put your playing in pespective + you can
exchange with other players.
Does an isolated Buddhist have to play classical guitar?
Ego elimination is a myth ...

Alain

Excatly so Alain, what healthy Buddhist wants to eliminate their so
called hard eraned ego. This is really an 18th century perspictive on
Buddhism. Perhaps our learned scholar should get his lazy mind out of
12th century European history and embrace the future.
MT

Rather than the over-used term, 'Ego', I prefer the more subtle description
of
the, 'Bullshitting Brain.', (ymennydd malu cachu), ya know, that part of the
brain that causes a woman, no-matter how beautiful, to say things like,
'Does my bum look big in this?'

:)

--
Jez, MBA.,
Country Dancing and Advanced Astrology, UBS.

"Culture and Ideology are not your friends. Culture is the greatest barrier
to your enlightenment, your education, and your decency." - Terence McKenna

"It is no measure of health to be well adjusted to a profoundly sick
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Better than "ego" - "monkeymind"? Or is it Hanuman or the trickster?
The problem with western psychology is that it has no sense of humor
and it doesn't teach us to have compassion for our human madness.

Chogya Trungpa said something to the effect that it qould be madness
to get rid of that part of the mind known as "ego". I'll see if I can
find the book and then the passage.

Ed S.

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