Mooji: "Pain brings me back to ego..."

Love

February 11, 2014

"LOVE AS A BUSINESS DEAL

It is very difficult to learn to love. If an object of fascination or some kind of dream or promise is presented to you, you might fall in love. But it is very hard to love if it means purely giving love without expecting anything in return. We can only fall in love if we think our expectations will be fulfilled. In most of our love affairs, our love is conditional. It is more of a business deal than actual love."
  ~ “Planting the Moon of Bodhi in Your Heart” in Volume Two of The Profound Treasury of the Ocean of Dharma by Chögyam Trungpa

Man is Divided

Pink Slippers on Green Rug ~ L.Lopez 2012

"Man has no individuality. He has no single, big I. Man is divided into a multiplicity of small I's."  ~ G.I.Gurdjieff

ISOTM Chapter  III

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"Eckhart Tolle: To me the ego is the habitual and compulsive thought processes that go through everybody's mind continuously. External things like possessions or memories or failures or successes or achievements. Your personal history. All these things, a bundle of thoughts, of repetitive thoughts that give you a sense of who you are.
Dan Harris: So our ego, this constant stream of thinking, the voice in our head is making us miserable?
Eckhart Tolle: Yes, that's right. And it prevents you from being truly alive. So I'm not saying we mustn't think anymore. That would not be possible and it would not be desirable. Thinking is a wonderful tool if it's applied. Thinking however can not become the master. Thinking is a very bad master. If you're dominated by thinking then your life becomes very restricted. If you're able to use your mind instead of being used by your mind, that's a beautiful thing. To use your mind constructively. "

Interview with Eckhart Tolle

Spiritual Materialism

"Enlightenment is the highest thing that we could ever achieve ... We all know that... But at the same time we have a lot of problems with that. So presenting the teaching of spirituality properly, [...] you have to have very good understanding of basic sanity. And also you have to have a good understanding of basic materialism - spiritually. ..." ~ Chogyam Trungpa Rimpoche

Part I

 

Part II

Part III

Part IV

Narcissus and Echo

Narcissus ~ by Michelangelo Caravaggio

Myth: http:http://thanasis.com/echo.htm, http://www.echo.me.uk/legend.htm

Psychology: narcissism: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Narcissism

Eco and Narcissus ~ by John William Waterhouse

Weekly Work: FALSE PERSONALITY

What is false personality?