Egocide
“The mind is a bundle of thoughts.
The thoughts arise because there is the thinker.
The thinker is the ego.
The ego, if sought, will automatically vanish.
The ego and the mind are the same.
The ego is the root-thought from which all other thoughts arise.”
~ Sri Ramana Maharshi
“Ego is the biggest enemy of humans. ”
~ Rig Veda
“Free of ego, living naturally, working virtuously, you become filled with inexhaustible vitality and are liberated forever from the cycle of death and rebirth.”
~ Lao Tzu
“The foundation of the Buddha’s teachings lies in compassion,
and the reason for practicing the teachings is to wipe out the persistence of ego, the number-one enemy of compassion.”
~ H.H. Dalai Lama
“The entire Buddhist path is based on the discovery of egolessness and the maturing of insight or knowledge that comes from egolessness.”
~ Chogyam Trungpa Rinpoche
“In essence there is and always has been
only one spiritual teaching,
although it comes in many forms.”
~ Eckhart Tolle – The Power of Now
“As ego goes,
consciousness grows,
until it Knows
– Its-SELF.”
~ Ron Rattner, Sutra Sayings
Beyond Ego
Introduction
Dear Friends,
We are now experiencing exceptionally advantageous Aquarian age cosmic energies, and auspicious astrological planetary alignments, favorable to spiritual evolution. I optimistically intuit that these unprecedented energies and rare alignments are elevating a ‘critical mass’ of humankind to ascend from illusory 3D body/mind or brain/mind consciousness to previously unimagined 5D heart/mind telepathic awareness.
Therefore I am updating and republishing postings which can most help us benefit from these unprecedented evolutionary energies. And because ego is the greatest obstacle to human spiritual evolution, I’m particularly updating and republishing important postings about ego.
According to Sri Ramana Maharshi “The ego is the root-thought from which all other thoughts arise.” So “the ego and the mind are the same” and if recognized, the ego “will automatically vanish”. Thus, it is of critical importance for our spiritual evolution to identify and transcend ego-mind, and (as explained below) ending ego is the fundamental message of all spiritual teachings.
Thus today’s “Egocide” posting is the following sutra-poem (with mp3 recitation), which was composed after I’d realized the crucial importance of undoing ego to transcend inevitable karmic suffering in this illusory 3D space/time causality ‘reality’. It is preceded by above key quotations, and followed by my explanations about ending ego.
Please carefully consider these writings. They are founded on the fact that almost every Human (except for rare Buddha-like beings) knowingly or unknowingly is in some stage of a fated evolutionary process of undoing mistaken ego identity – a process indispensable to inevitable evolution.
Thus these writings and quotations are dedicated to reminding us of our critical need to let go of who or what we think we are, so we can realize and BE what we truly are – immortally ONE with Divine SELF as LOVE.
And so may it be!
Ron Rattner
“Egocide”
Ego’s attrition
is our mission;
Egocide’s our goal.
When ego’s dead
we’ll lose all dread,
Knowing we are Soul.
Then we’ll say
that life’s a play,
Each body/mind a role;
That we’re the Glory
and not the story,
Not just parts –
but WHOLE.
Ron’s recitation of “Egocide”
Ron’s explanation and dedication of “Egocide”
Dear Friends,
The foregoing whimsical “Egocide” poem was composed after I had realized the crucial importance of undoing ego to transcend inevitable karmic suffering in this space/time causality ‘reality’.
As explained in other recent SillySutras postings, “ego” is our thought-created mistaken separate self-identity, rooted in the ‘I’ thought, which as memory originates the ‘bundle of thoughts’ we call “mind”.
For millennia spiritual teachings have identified “ego” as the fundamental impediment to spiritual evolution and realization; as “the biggest enemy of humans.” (Rig Veda ); and the “number-one enemy of compassion.” (Dalai Lama). The Dalai Lama has said that all Buddhist teachings aim “to wipe out the persistence of ego.” And Eckhart Tolle believes that transcending ego “is and always has been [the] only one spiritual teaching.”
The Egocide sutra-verses are founded on the fact that every Human (except for rare Buddha-like beings) knowingly or unknowingly is in some stage of an evolutionary process of undoing mistaken ego identity – a process indispensable to our inevitable evolution.
From childhood we are culturally inculcated to self-identify only with a restricted and disempowering mental self-image; as merely a separate name, gender, and story about who and what we are, based on our limited projected perceptions of “reality”. We are taught that we are each born into Nature as separate mortal beings; but, not that Nature is our nature, or that beyond any mistakenly inculcated misidentity we are immortal and eternal Universal Awareness, sharing common Self consciousness with all perceived life-forms.
Accordingly, the foregoing “Egocide” sutra-verses and quotations are dedicated to reminding all of us of our critical need to let go of who or what we think we are, so we can realize and BE what we truly are – immortally ONE with Divine SELF as LOVE..
May they so encourage, and quicken our discovery and undoing of “ego” as an illusory prison of the mind, until we’re all out of ‘prison’ –
“Free at last, free at last”.
And so may it be!
Ron Rattner
