MORALITY IS CONCERNED WITH TRANSFORMATION OF EGO, WHEREAS
SPIRITUALITY IS TRANSCENDENCE FROM EGO
Dalvir Gill
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It’s not that a Buddha doesn’t have thoughts, memory (On the contrary his memory is crystal clear and his thought-process is better channelized. He is the master of his thinking, not the other way around). Even a Buddha uses the word “I”, he just doesn’t identify his self with it any more. Earlier this ‘magic rug’ had a mind of its own, now and only now, it’s being piloted. We already are humans but not living our full potentiality. Afterward, we are not going to become gods/God, just will be living our utmost capacities. If a seed insists that it has no longing to become a tree and flower and bear fruits, I can’t change its mind, just can point that you will still be a seed but who has reached its completeness.
You may have said lightly but that is exactly the purpose of this dust (Ego). You inner Truth is bound to burn you whole. (When people start meditating sincerely they all report some sadness descending on them.)
We all have experience this (Now & Here will do or make your own name), desire of the unknown can’t arise. Peak of an orgasm, totally merged in any of your daily-routine talks, creating something, sneezing etc., couldbe a mundane task but everyone has experienced this “No-Mind” without realizing it. Thirst is their.
That’s where I saw morality and religion to be different. Morality refines your ego, makes it subtle and religion removes it altogether.(And I repeat that only unreal can dissolve, for me that’s the proof that ego is unreal, I am not calling it fake. For the sleeping it’s the only thing which is not fake.) Enlightened one doesn’t quit his day-job, just he is not doer anymore, things still get done through him.
The build-up your ego is done through others. Even simple things as if your body is beautiful or ugly, you can’t rely on your own eyes and a mirror, others decide it for you, and you accept.
You are real, mirror is real, but that reflection in the mirror is not real, even if you can photograph it.
That Tantra technique I mentioned starts from this. Feel: Your thoughts aren’t yours. People have died for the thoughts they thought were theirs, But once you start this inward journey, that’s the first feeling which comes that these thoughts are just passing clouds and your consciousness is like the sky.
Your mind can influence you (always has been), no hard to influence others and of course in this world it is being played that everyone is telling how great Emperor’s clothes look.
“The Olympian Willpower.”
What is it?
The only Reality.
Whose is it?
Yours, only yours, absolutely yours.
But if u see it from other side -the fakers & liars have their own insecurities or their past experiences that makes them so…and most of the time they are not even sure who they are being ‘truthful’ to-others or themselves.
Food for thought for the day
The Objectivist ethics holds man’s life as the standard of value—and his own life as the ethical purpose of every individual man.
The difference between “standard” and “purpose” in this context is as follows: a “standard” is an abstract principle that serves as a measurement or gauge to guide a man’s choices in the achievement of a concrete, specific purpose. “That which is required for the survival of man qua man” is an abstract principle that applies to every individual man. The task of applying this principle to a concrete, specific purpose—the purpose of living a life proper to a rational being—belongs to every individual man, and the life he has to live is his own.
Man must choose his actions, values and goals by the standard of that which is proper to man—in order to achieve, maintain, fulfill and enjoy that ultimate value, that end in itself, which is his own life.
Value is that which one acts to gain and/or keep—virtue is the act by which one gains and/or keeps it. The three cardinal values of the Objectivist ethics—the three values which, together, are the means to and the realization of one’s ultimate value, one’s own life—are: Reason, Purpose, Self-Esteem, with their three corresponding virtues: Rationality, Productiveness, Pride.
Productive work is the central purpose of a rational man’s life, the central value that integrates and determines the hierarchy of all his other values. Reason is the source, the precondition of his productive work—pride is the result.
Here friends I would like to add the link for further study.
http://www.aynrand.org/site/PageServer…
Feel: my thoughts, I-ness, internal organs—me ( I-less).
When you are really ‘studying’ yourself that’s the first realization that your thoughts aren’t yours.
Selfishness is a virtue in spiritual realms but a vice in society.
Another Repetition:
A spiritual being is amoral ( NO morality or immorality can exist there.)
it’s still a thought, needs to be thrown out.
Through it back where it came from, or in your own words,”No where or now here.”
[No where and everywhere are really the same thing as everybody or nobody is. The final realization for Gautum Buddha was Nirvana (a negative term indicating nothingness, nobody-ness, nowhere-ness) and the same state was told by tantra {as By some Aham Brahmasmi = An al-Haq= I am Him(God)} to be everywhere, everything.
Arpana, we can look at the Whole Existence either way, If all this is an endless ‘Sunayata’ (Emptiness), then your emptiness is barred. That’s exactly what that Sutra meant, Once you have dropped that bar it doesn’t really makes any difference if you call that I am everywhere or that I am nowhere. (In fact ‘I’ has only meaning if there is any ‘You’ (other) present, soon the realization comes that ‘I’ is not limited to this body that this whole existence is one (this body might be nearest corner/end of this all) ‘I’ drops automatically. Before that You can interpret it to be anything, even emptiness, and note that up till that point it’s your ’emptiness’. Body is a reality and we seem to call it our own, (All the good things are because of soul and for all the bad things we blame body, For lust we blame body and compassion/love is heart=soul’s doing; we have created a pseudo self.) After realization, one can’t see his body or soul to be any separate.
I am lost now. Just throw it anywhere, same way thoughts were a burden, this emptiness is also a burden, asubtle one and that’s why even heavier.
And Pratibha, using your words I can say,”Transcendence of Ego is necessary to exist spiritually as transformation of Ego is to live morally.
[Unless lived/experienced, a thought is still a thought however great or even golden and it’s not real for one even it’s truth for the one who gave it to you.