I don't get it- read 3rd
What I don’t quite get is this desire to be ego-less, and reach enlightenment... it’s like and then what? what is there?
Buddhism states that the ego is what we are trying to rid ourselves of to a certain degree so that you don’t need to be reincarnated again, right?
And what about the body, and all the wonderful things you can experience in the body? relationships? people? love? making love? chocolate? fresh fruit? All of these things can only be touched in the body, with the ego...
I don’t know about having children and the whole white-picket fence, but I do see myself settling down, with a partner, friends, community, home, career, etc... and it seems like none of that is important if you are enlightened, i.e. ego-less
Dave and I were discussing this, and how our ego does serve us in so many ways, and perhaps its better to strive to have a healthy ego than to be ego-less...
Dave has been a yoga teacher, tai chi teacher, and was once a body piercer, and big raver, he knows about and seems to know a lot about a lot, but it was more like his enthusiasm and joy that seemed to touch me...
After sharing some personal experience with Dave, I’ve decided to pursue meditation in a more balanced way, perhaps not at all, and instead do things like chi gong and tai chi, yoga, etc... that bring you more into the body because I tend to space out and get really involved in my mental thought processes, and meditation seems to encourage that sense of the world getting smaller, and can be somewhat repressive... anyway, we’ll see...
I guess I also enjoy and can’t deny my Christian roots. I’ve had a couple direct experiences lately where I’ve said a prayer and it has been answered directly... I like saying prayers to something bigger than me... not accepting something, but asking for help with it, alas... its all God... I guess its like I’m just taking little nibbles from everything that I’m learning about to make it my own... If that makes any sense at all?
Buddhism states that the ego is what we are trying to rid ourselves of to a certain degree so that you don’t need to be reincarnated again, right?
And what about the body, and all the wonderful things you can experience in the body? relationships? people? love? making love? chocolate? fresh fruit? All of these things can only be touched in the body, with the ego...
I don’t know about having children and the whole white-picket fence, but I do see myself settling down, with a partner, friends, community, home, career, etc... and it seems like none of that is important if you are enlightened, i.e. ego-less
Dave and I were discussing this, and how our ego does serve us in so many ways, and perhaps its better to strive to have a healthy ego than to be ego-less...
Dave has been a yoga teacher, tai chi teacher, and was once a body piercer, and big raver, he knows about and seems to know a lot about a lot, but it was more like his enthusiasm and joy that seemed to touch me...
After sharing some personal experience with Dave, I’ve decided to pursue meditation in a more balanced way, perhaps not at all, and instead do things like chi gong and tai chi, yoga, etc... that bring you more into the body because I tend to space out and get really involved in my mental thought processes, and meditation seems to encourage that sense of the world getting smaller, and can be somewhat repressive... anyway, we’ll see...
I guess I also enjoy and can’t deny my Christian roots. I’ve had a couple direct experiences lately where I’ve said a prayer and it has been answered directly... I like saying prayers to something bigger than me... not accepting something, but asking for help with it, alas... its all God... I guess its like I’m just taking little nibbles from everything that I’m learning about to make it my own... If that makes any sense at all?
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