A short book on ego…and meditation therapy
By David Edwards
issue Mantra BookJuly 1stst2025
The human heart stands at the center of the circle of mirrors. The mirrors – parents, friends, lovers, teachers, strangers – always reflect the image of who we are. We are said to be annoying, adorable, stupid, and unloved. We show that we are not academic, we have a lovely voice, that we are fast runners and we are dancing beautifully, and that we are all flaunting.
Reflections collect as ambiguous masses of perceived obscure overviews of individuals, individuality, and “I.” This is the ego, and the mind identifies itself with impressions from the outside world.
It makes sense that the self-construction of reflected opinions is a mass of unstable, temporary, trembling contradictions. The ego must seek more positive reflexes, more attention forever. Without them, the self-image will begin to melt. As the reflections from yesterday fade, there is a growing sense that we are becoming colorless and essential. If this lasts long enough, we start to feel like “has-been”, ghosts, “no one.”
Therefore, we cannot attract sufficient attention. This will soon become the dominant theme in our lives. We are looking for “fame,” but in reality we are attracting attention. We are looking for wealth, but we are attracting attention. He aims to “express himself” on X, Facebook, Instagram and Tiktok, but it’s attracting attention. We seek political power, but we want attention, attention, attention. We want to celebrate the circle of mirrors. We don’t care much about their motivations or ours.
in A short book on ego…and meditation therapyI will explain three main strategies of ego for attention. We all have a successful ego that smokes the big cigar behind a Rolls-Royce. No one aims to be “special” than the “star” that draws attention.
However, there are other ways to seek attention because it is “special.” The suffering ego promotes the impression that it is “special” by the severity of the problem and the depth of the pain – these are problems Really Case. Clearly, or in fact, those who are troubled by problems may imagine that they have nothing to do with the cigar connection big names. But in fact, our egos can learn to use suffering to make ourselves the centre of attention and justify dominant behavior in almost the same way.
The suffering ego lifts itself up with its own “special” issue, but the correct ego claim for fame lies in unusual concerns about the issue others. Seinfeld from the comedy series loved to nail the pride of this form. After a characteristically selfless act of generosity, Jerry thinks to himself:
“I’m such a great guy! Who has experienced the trouble of helping this poor immigrant? morning special. My mother was right. ”
It’s not a small thing to abandon the railway because of lack of compassion for the people around us. That means they are all morally “inferior”. Based on this, we feel that our ego is just as entitled to anger, preach and patronize as successful or suffering egos. Others may be wealthier, more famous and beautiful, but the correct ego can slide the rabbit bond of “normality” and rise to the moral “high ground.”
Something is always missing
No matter how successful you are in achieving fame, fame and profit, the quest for ego’s happiness through attention and external “success” must fail. Rama Zopa Rinpoche observed:
“There’s always something missing. If you look into your mind in your daily life, you can always see that something is missing… you’re never really happy.”
Climber Joe Simpson explained his feelings of being part of the Summit’s first team Siula Grande In the Andes of Peru in the West Face:
“We took a picture of the conventional summit and had chocolate. I felt the usual anti-remax. What now? It was a vicious cycle. If you succeed in one dream, you’ll be back to one square…”
Something was missing.
In July 1969, astronaut Buzz Aldrin chased Neil Armstrong and became the second man to walk the moon in July 1969. Back on Earth, Aldrin made this amazing comment.
“I told Neil, ‘We missed everything.’ I didn’t share any exhilarating moments here. We were doing something else out of town. ”
In July 1966, British footballer Jeff Hearst joined the pitch at Wembley Football Stadium and won a hat-trick to win the World Cup final against West Germany. It was a historic and iconic victory, but as Rama Zopa said, something was missing:
“There was a tremendous sense of anti-climax when we were there. [the team] I went home. Everything passed so quickly… I hadn’t been home for years so I cut off the grass. Then I washed the car. It was very similar to other Sunday afternoons. ”
At the peak of his fame in the 1970s, Pop Heart’s pounding David Cassidy received 20,000-30,000 fan letters a week. All of that praise was immediately worn lightly. Cassidy concluded:
“I wanted to have a career other than my own. It may sound ridiculous now, but that’s true. There was a rich and famous star out there.
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15th-16th Century Indian Mystic Kabir joined the long meditation master when he warned of the futileness of pursuing the dream of happiness outside the ego.
“Don’t go outside the house to see the flowers. My friend, don’t worry about that field trip. Inside your body there are flowers. One flower has a thousand petals. It is done for a place to sit. Sit there, you will get a glimpse of the beauty inside and outside the body, in front of the garden, and after the garden.
The flowers of a thousand flowers are enlightenment and glimpses of them are available to all of us. The beauty of meditation is that it can be used as a portal for life-changing experiences, including the misery created by success, suffering, and righteous ego.
of course, avoid This emotional pain. The mystical German Eckhart Tre advises us to instead face it and feel it perfectly. We shouldn’t think about it, just to feel it:
“Be vigorously alert when you enter emotions. At first, it may seem like a dark and terrifying place. And when there’s an urge to leave, observe it, but don’t act on it. Keep your attention on the pain, sadness, fear, fear, loneliness, whatever it is.
Spiritual teacher Michael Singer explains the results:
“On the other side of pain is ecstasy. On the other side is freedom. Your true greatness is hidden on the other side of the layer of pain. You must happily accept the pain in order to pass to the other side.”
We all will do well to post this advice on our tests.
In July 2020, my dad got sick and the Covid pandemic meant I couldn’t visit him. When he passed away a month after being locked up in the hospital without visitors, I felt intense sadness, anxiety and anguish. Of course, this pain was caused by the idea of what had happened. However, pain in turn encouraged more thoughts.
I have looked closely at this process in meditation. Thinking, pain, and mystical third phenomenon: seeing both my perception, my consciousness. When this sighting awareness focused on the thoughts in my head, they multiplied, and the emotional pain in my chest increased. But as I continued to distract my attention from my thoughts about pain, I delved into the pain – feeling sadness, suffering as deeply as possible – my thoughts began to sink, deprived of the energy given to me by attention. So did the thought-driven pain in my chest as my thoughts settled. The more I focused on painful emotions, the less energy I had to maintain either thought or pain.
As the pain continued to ease and my thoughts were relieved, there was a moment when I was focused on feeling a small gap had appeared in the chain of thoughts. Through that gap, an instant, intense point of bliss was caught in my heart. It was a burning, ecological point of love and joy. I’ve attracted attention for this little spark. The sparks melted, spread, and deepened, forming a sparkling pool of bliss and love on my chest and back.
The fiery anguish had now completely disappeared. I felt a sense of emotion, happiness and peace. This loving bliss was with me for the rest of the day. I referenced this experience and made a short entry in my diary four days after my father passed away.
“The bliss of afternoon meditation.”
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