“Ego is the absence of true knowledge of who we really are, together with its result: a doomed clutching on, at all costs, to a cobbled together and makeshift image of ourselves, an inevitably chameleon charlatan self that keeps changing, and has to, to keep alive the fiction of its existence.
In Tibetan, ego is called dakdzin , which means �grasping to a self.� Ego is then defined as incessant movements of grasping at a delusory notion of �I� and �mine,� self and other, and all the concepts, ideas, desires, and activities that will sustain that false construction.
Such grasping is futile from the start and condemned to frustration, for there is no basis or truth in it, and what we are grasping at is by its very nature ungraspable. The fact that we need to grasp at all and to go on grasping shows that in the depths of our being we know that the self doesn�t inherently exist. From this secret, unnerving knowledge spring all our fundamental insecurities and fears.”
– Sogyal Rinpoche
Many of us grasp at all sorts of things that our egoic framework accepts as “acceptable” regardless of how idiotic it truly is. we grasp at sports performance at the sake of our health or harmony of our family just to preserve our sense of “i-ness”.
We grasp at paychecks at the expense of a truly wealthy life as if our sense of self is comprised of the THINGS we can buy with those paychecks.
We grasp at alcohol.
We grasp at pain relievers.
We grasp at prescription pills.
We grasp at rationalizations of why we “Can’t” study under a Dharma Teacher or eat healthy foods.
We grasp at conversations to solidify who we think we are and what we think we know.
Why is it soooo hard to ‘stand’ on our wrists compared to standing on our ankles?
Grasping, grasping, grasping. That is why.
Who Taught You What It Is That You Know?
Just how original of a Human Being are you
compared to your predictability of a Human Doing?
How did you come to know what you Know?
Today you have two questions to ask in each moment arising;
“Am i grasping?
or
Am i concentrating?”
Om Mani Padme Hung,
coach ilg
photo: Coach moving through his unique HP Yoga� sequence known as, “Opening The Energy Vents Of The Body,” This sequence is only available to WF Online Students due to the intense, subtle anatomical training effect from it.
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