Comments on: How to Reduce the Ego. http://www.srichinmoybio.co.uk/blog/self-improvement/how-to-reduce-the-ego/ Self Improvement for daily Life Thu, 11 Mar 2010 21:22:36 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: masud http://www.srichinmoybio.co.uk/blog/self-improvement/how-to-reduce-the-ego/comment-page-2/#comment-2026 masud Thu, 04 Mar 2010 16:02:33 +0000 http://www.srichinmoybio.co.uk/blog/self-improvement/how-to-reduce-the-ego/#comment-2026 Dear Stephen, Thanks for longing for letting go of ego. If you keep yourself in touch with me via mail, surely i will be able within a moment to make you enlightened following the path of janamarg, because i think your are qualified enough to absorb the said. With loving regards, masud from bangladesh Dear Stephen,
Thanks for longing for letting go of ego.
If you keep yourself in touch with me via mail, surely i will be able within a moment to make you enlightened following the path of janamarg, because i think your are qualified enough to absorb the said.
With loving regards,
masud from bangladesh

]]> By: Maryann http://www.srichinmoybio.co.uk/blog/self-improvement/how-to-reduce-the-ego/comment-page-2/#comment-2023 Maryann Thu, 04 Mar 2010 04:34:55 +0000 http://www.srichinmoybio.co.uk/blog/self-improvement/how-to-reduce-the-ego/#comment-2023 thank you for taking time to post this...it really helped me thank you for taking time to post this…it really helped me

]]> By: iram http://www.srichinmoybio.co.uk/blog/self-improvement/how-to-reduce-the-ego/comment-page-2/#comment-2018 iram Sun, 28 Feb 2010 13:53:33 +0000 http://www.srichinmoybio.co.uk/blog/self-improvement/how-to-reduce-the-ego/#comment-2018 thanks....i hav never thought in this way regarding ego....i think this will help me...!!! thanks….i hav never thought in this way regarding ego….i think this will help me…!!!

]]> By: pensive http://www.srichinmoybio.co.uk/blog/self-improvement/how-to-reduce-the-ego/comment-page-2/#comment-1984 pensive Wed, 10 Feb 2010 21:57:45 +0000 http://www.srichinmoybio.co.uk/blog/self-improvement/how-to-reduce-the-ego/#comment-1984 Christian Bach: The concept of ego as something that controls the id is overly simplistic. In most cases, the ego becomes that which it tries to control. Accumulation of material wealth is primal behaviour. It's a modern day version of tribal hoarding (food, hunting resources, etc.). Similarly, as we homo sapiens are social animals, the need for social validation manifests itself in an addiction to flattery and conformity to the group. So destruction of the ego won't make you a reactionary animal. You already are one. It won't even make you a Nietzschian ubermensch, for that too is a limited understanding of enlightenment. It is impossible to describe in words what it leads to. Describing water to a person who has never tasted it doesn't transmit knowledge of what it actually is. Only the experience of drinking does. Christian Bach: The concept of ego as something that controls the id is overly simplistic. In most cases, the ego becomes that which it tries to control. Accumulation of material wealth is primal behaviour. It’s a modern day version of tribal hoarding (food, hunting resources, etc.). Similarly, as we homo sapiens are social animals, the need for social validation manifests itself in an addiction to flattery and conformity to the group.

So destruction of the ego won’t make you a reactionary animal. You already are one. It won’t even make you a Nietzschian ubermensch, for that too is a limited understanding of enlightenment. It is impossible to describe in words what it leads to. Describing water to a person who has never tasted it doesn’t transmit knowledge of what it actually is. Only the experience of drinking does.

]]> By: Christian Bach http://www.srichinmoybio.co.uk/blog/self-improvement/how-to-reduce-the-ego/comment-page-2/#comment-1948 Christian Bach Sat, 02 Jan 2010 23:04:48 +0000 http://www.srichinmoybio.co.uk/blog/self-improvement/how-to-reduce-the-ego/#comment-1948 Shouldn't the goal be to control and tame the instincts with our "ego" instead? Shouldn’t the goal be to control and tame the instincts with our “ego” instead?

]]> By: Christian Bach http://www.srichinmoybio.co.uk/blog/self-improvement/how-to-reduce-the-ego/comment-page-2/#comment-1947 Christian Bach Sat, 02 Jan 2010 22:52:53 +0000 http://www.srichinmoybio.co.uk/blog/self-improvement/how-to-reduce-the-ego/#comment-1947 I think that the ideas and points of the article are good, but I don't understand why we have to "reduce" the ego, rather than "change" it? Without our "ego" we would simply be animals living on our basic instincts. Is that really the goal of our existence? I think that the ideas and points of the article are good, but I don’t understand why we have to “reduce” the ego, rather than “change” it?
Without our “ego” we would simply be animals living on our basic instincts.
Is that really the goal of our existence?

]]> By: Steve L Young http://www.srichinmoybio.co.uk/blog/self-improvement/how-to-reduce-the-ego/comment-page-2/#comment-1943 Steve L Young Wed, 30 Dec 2009 14:39:23 +0000 http://www.srichinmoybio.co.uk/blog/self-improvement/how-to-reduce-the-ego/#comment-1943 Materialistic aquisitions are often an inflated ego, as well...... SLY Materialistic aquisitions are often an inflated ego, as well…… SLY

]]> By: nibedita http://www.srichinmoybio.co.uk/blog/self-improvement/how-to-reduce-the-ego/comment-page-2/#comment-1896 nibedita Fri, 13 Nov 2009 16:25:32 +0000 http://www.srichinmoybio.co.uk/blog/self-improvement/how-to-reduce-the-ego/#comment-1896 relly nice post..thank you... i accept that i am a person who is completely overshadowed by ego.. i'll try my best to reduce my ego ... thank you!!! relly nice post..thank you…

i accept that i am a person who is completely overshadowed by ego..

i’ll try my best to reduce my ego …

thank you!!!

]]> By: Meghashyam Chirravoori http://www.srichinmoybio.co.uk/blog/self-improvement/how-to-reduce-the-ego/comment-page-1/#comment-1795 Meghashyam Chirravoori Sun, 13 Sep 2009 10:03:37 +0000 http://www.srichinmoybio.co.uk/blog/self-improvement/how-to-reduce-the-ego/#comment-1795 Immediately after reading this article, I rememebred a post on ego that I had read long ago. So many things you and I do are ego driven but we are unconscious of it and feel we are doing them. deoxy.org/egofalse.htm is the article that I had read long ago which made a lasting impact on me. Thank you for this post of course. :) Immediately after reading this article, I rememebred a post on ego that I had read long ago.

So many things you and I do are ego driven but we are unconscious of it and feel we are doing them.

deoxy.org/egofalse.htm is the article that I had read long ago which made a lasting impact on me.

Thank you for this post of course. :)

]]> By: Jo http://www.srichinmoybio.co.uk/blog/self-improvement/how-to-reduce-the-ego/comment-page-1/#comment-1751 Jo Thu, 03 Sep 2009 19:46:43 +0000 http://www.srichinmoybio.co.uk/blog/self-improvement/how-to-reduce-the-ego/#comment-1751 How should one deal with a complex of being victim in life. I think it is rooted in ego, because it is a subtle urge to show that I have come thus far despite many hardships. I am sure it probably really comes from a place of feeling inferior. I want to free myself from it but I think it is part of my sense of identity so pops up again and again. Then if I talk about the difficult past with others I am unsure if it coming from ego or not. I wonder if I should try and let go of past hardships completely? How should one deal with a complex of being victim in life. I think it is rooted in ego, because it is a subtle urge to show that I have come thus far despite many hardships. I am sure it probably really comes from a place of feeling inferior. I want to free myself from it but I think it is part of my sense of identity so pops up again and again. Then if I talk about the difficult past with others I am unsure if it coming from ego or not. I wonder if I should try and let go of past hardships completely?

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