My own thoughts on the ego
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novapsyche8/17/01, 2:30 a.m.
The missing element is the ego as an independent agent. Ego adulterates a being's energy with its selfish desires. Transcending one's ego necessarily involves moving beyond one's own desires (or, in light of Osho's words, lettting one's desires move beyond *you*). *Very* Eastern, I know. I know next to absolutely nothing about Hinduism, but I know I just said something very much in that vein.
8/21/01, 1:45 p.m.
I feel I'm starting to believe there can be no "mastery" over one's mind. As Jung said, "We can never finally know." I believe we can grow in our understanding of the mind's workings, mechanisms, impulses and instincts. But I feel that we can no more fully control the mind any more than our minds fully control us. We can only strive to understand more, to grok more completely. I do not want to master (and, resultingly, *enslave*) myself. I merely seek a better understanding.
The missing element is the ego as an independent agent. Ego adulterates a being's energy with its selfish desires. Transcending one's ego necessarily involves moving beyond one's own desires (or, in light of Osho's words, lettting one's desires move beyond *you*). *Very* Eastern, I know. I know next to absolutely nothing about Hinduism, but I know I just said something very much in that vein.
8/21/01, 1:45 p.m.
I feel I'm starting to believe there can be no "mastery" over one's mind. As Jung said, "We can never finally know." I believe we can grow in our understanding of the mind's workings, mechanisms, impulses and instincts. But I feel that we can no more fully control the mind any more than our minds fully control us. We can only strive to understand more, to grok more completely. I do not want to master (and, resultingly, *enslave*) myself. I merely seek a better understanding.