(March 29, 2012 at 1:22 am)genkaus Wrote:(March 29, 2012 at 12:08 am)Bgood Wrote: Yet it demands surrendering the EGO, not the mind, for spiritual enlightenment (big difference).
Your ego - your concept of self - is the source of all you are and all you have. You cannot surrender the source and hope to somehow retain your mind.
Like you said, ego is a CONCEPT of self. God is also a concept. Therefore the ego is not the source, it is a mental construct created through experience and social conditioning. The pure mind is conscious awareness that gets obstructed by egotistic "needs". Ego is not mind, only a troubling phantom of it. This is a difficult teaching of the dharma, yet very important.
You, yourself, as much as anybody in the entire universe, deserve your love and affection.
There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting.
Buddha
There are only two mistakes one can make along the road to truth; not going all the way, and not starting.
Buddha
