Chapter 3 has these sections:
Complaining and resentment
Reactivity and grievances
Being right and making wrong
In defense of an illusion
Truth relative or absolute?
The Ego is not personal
War is a mindset
Beyond ego: your true identity
All structures are unstable
The ego's need to feel superior
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I was astounded with Tolle's teachings on "Telling someone the news of what happened" including sometimes bad news to the other person. Astounded because he confirmed what I sometimes feel in myself when telling someone bad news. My heart and my mind logically should feel empathy and compassion when bringing the bad news to my friend. And I do. But I have also noticed just like Tolle described an unseemly sense of separation from the other person. I don't like the feeling. It is a feeling of superiority, separation, personal relief that says "I am glad I am not the unfortunate one."
Now I know it is my ego and not "I" who is generating that feeling of superiority and separation.
Ego and fame
Wednesday, August 13, 2008
Sunday, August 10, 2008
Chapter 2: Am I my things?
The lost ring story reminded me of a similar situation that happened to me a couple of years ago in Sante Fe, NM. I was there participating in an Avatar course as a master. The course was gong very well until Sunday the last day.
That morning getting ready to go the hotel conference room, I noticed my watch was missing. The watch had significant meaning to me because it was a watch my dad used to wear and I inherited it when he passed away. I just couldn't figure out where I could have lost it. I practically torn the room apart and then I retraced my steps of my previous night. Nowhere to be found.
I went to course anyway--a bit distracted (quite a bit actually), feeling really bad. It's a famous brand of a watch and had great sentimental value to me. I performed my Avatar course duty to the best I could but I was quite sad nonetheless even though I was able to put that sadness behind the scenes and not let it affect my student. She finished the course and got great results.
Somewhere in the afternoon, I shifted out of my funk. I decided to let it go. I decided that I was not my watch even though it was a very expensive watch with sentimental value. I let it go and got connected to my higher self once again.
That evening back in the room. Though pretty much accepting the fact that I wouldn't see my Rolex again, I stood in front of the TV stand in the room. The stand has a number of shelves and the TV sits on a sliding shelf. When you look at the shelf in front it appears to be a solid piece of wood. I don't know what caused me to slide the shelf out and dropped to my knees on the floor and looked up. The watch had slid behind what appeared to be solid shelfing if you look at it from the front. It was a perfect trap door and the only way I could have discovered that was to kneel down and then looked up. No logic could have told me to do that.
I can still remember as if there was an intuitive self in me that caused me to kneel down on the carpet and looked up.
It was pure intuition without thinking that was doing the looking.
The power of letting go of possession seem to let me be connected to my intuitive self. And that had a sixth sense.
The "I" at that moment was without attachment to any thing. It was simply observing and it could sense things a lot better any thinking mind.
That morning getting ready to go the hotel conference room, I noticed my watch was missing. The watch had significant meaning to me because it was a watch my dad used to wear and I inherited it when he passed away. I just couldn't figure out where I could have lost it. I practically torn the room apart and then I retraced my steps of my previous night. Nowhere to be found.
I went to course anyway--a bit distracted (quite a bit actually), feeling really bad. It's a famous brand of a watch and had great sentimental value to me. I performed my Avatar course duty to the best I could but I was quite sad nonetheless even though I was able to put that sadness behind the scenes and not let it affect my student. She finished the course and got great results.
Somewhere in the afternoon, I shifted out of my funk. I decided to let it go. I decided that I was not my watch even though it was a very expensive watch with sentimental value. I let it go and got connected to my higher self once again.
That evening back in the room. Though pretty much accepting the fact that I wouldn't see my Rolex again, I stood in front of the TV stand in the room. The stand has a number of shelves and the TV sits on a sliding shelf. When you look at the shelf in front it appears to be a solid piece of wood. I don't know what caused me to slide the shelf out and dropped to my knees on the floor and looked up. The watch had slid behind what appeared to be solid shelfing if you look at it from the front. It was a perfect trap door and the only way I could have discovered that was to kneel down and then looked up. No logic could have told me to do that.
I can still remember as if there was an intuitive self in me that caused me to kneel down on the carpet and looked up.
It was pure intuition without thinking that was doing the looking.
The power of letting go of possession seem to let me be connected to my intuitive self. And that had a sixth sense.
The "I" at that moment was without attachment to any thing. It was simply observing and it could sense things a lot better any thinking mind.
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