Having any ego problems?

[Geoff-Allen]

Greetings once again!

Here's an article all about the human ego & all of the trouble it often causes ...

Your life is your greatest teacher, if you allow it to teach you. If you are a good student you will learn easily what life is teaching you, but if you are a hard-headed student you will keep repeating your mistakes without any growth or learning. To be a good student of life, you need to have some awareness, so that you can observe what’s happening in you and around you. It’s easy to see that the ego does not really fit in with life’s vibration, the ego has a vibration of lack/negativity whereas life has a vibration of wholeness/joy. So the vibration of ego does not match the vibration of life, and hence they are always at odds – however, which do you think is the bigger force? If you support the force of ego, you can get opposed to pull of life, and it’s not the long before you start feeling the suffering of this disconnection.

Read more here -

The Ego Always Finds a Way to be Unhappy

Cheers!

 

[Aupmanyav]

I do not have much of it, having seen good and bad in the world; and if it crops up, I can control it.

 

[icehorse]

Here's a slant on the ego that I've had vetted by official, PhD's from Oxford, cognitive scientists:

We can think of making a distinction between the mind and the brain. In this definition, the mind is the conscious, linguistically capable, ego. The mind speaks and listens, has intentions and plans, is proud or shy or self critical or "egotistical". The brain cannot talk. The brain is in charge of keeping your heart beating, and of performing physical activities. We often see the mind trying to go above its pay grade when it attempts to "coach" us to perform better at a sport, e.g. "remember, keep your knees bent". The mind also thinks it knows how to play games like chess. But if you ask a chess master what process she used to determine her last move, her answers will not hold up to scrutiny. The brain is the seat of "expert intuition". The chess master is a true, reliable expert, but cannot really explain her expertise. If we're honest, we cannot really explain how we do MOST of what we do. If you think you can REALLY explain how it is you walk through the woods, book yourself a ticket to Google HQ. They will pay you millions of dollars for your formula.

This is a long winded way to explain that one way to keep our mind's egos in check is to really understand how incapable our minds really are. Our minds / egos think "they're all that", but they are really quite limited. Instead we should try to recognize how amazing the unspoken hero is, the quiet, ego-free brain.