“When you are in a condition of light everything is ecstatic, everything is joyous, everything is beautiful. Your attention field is subtle. The ego is quiet. The mind is still. Your heart is happy.” MindHeartStillsLightBeautifulAttentionMeditationConditionsFieldsBuddhismQuietEgoSubtleJoyousEcstatic Author:Frederick Lenz
“Don't judge others. Always be open to them. Avoid the cult mentality, you know, the super-slick, "I'm superior because I meditate, because I'm on the pathway to enlightenment," the subtle ego nonsense, terrible trap.” KnowsJudgingBuddhismTerribleEgoEnlightenmentSuperiorsBuddhistNonsenseSubtleMentalityTrapsCultEtiquettePathwaysSlick Author:Frederick Lenz
“In deep sleep, even though one does not exist as an externally or internally conscious ego, one can report a good nights sleep because a very subtle ego remnant remains, permitting the experience of limitless and bliss.” DoeSelfNightSleepEgoConsciousRemainsBlissReportsSubtleLimitlessGood NightRemnantsGood Night SleepDeep Sleep Author:James R. Swartz
“I looked from one to the other, and realized that Barrons and my dad were having one of those wordless conversations he and I have from time to time. Though the language was, by nature, foreign to me, I grew up in the Deep South where a man’s ego is roughly the size of his pickup truck, and women get an early and interesting education in the not-so-subtle roar of testosterone.” MenLanguageInterestingGrewDadConversationEgoGrew UpSouthMy DadSizeSubtleTruckTestosteronePickupsPickup Trucks Book:Bloodfever Source: Bloodfever
“You can use reading as a food for the ego. It is very subtle. You can become knowledgeable; then it is dangerous and harmful. Then you are poisoning yourself, because knowledge is not knowing, knowledge is not wisdom. Wisdom has nothing to do with knowledge. Wisdom can exist in total ignorance also. If you use reading just as a food for the mind, to increase your memory, then you are in a wrong direction. But reading can be used in a different way; then reading is as beautiful as anything else in life” IfsWayMindDifferentUseBeautifulUsedReadingMemoriesKnowingDangerousIgnoranceEgoIncreaseDifferent WaysSubtleNot KnowingKnowledgeablePoisoningKnowledge WisdomWrong Direction Author:Rajneesh
“With your ego you cannot know. Only in an egolessness, in a deep abyss, in the absence of the ego, does the perception happen - then you become a mirror. With the ego you will always interpret, you cannot know the truth. With the ego you will always be there interpreting in subtle ways, and your interpretation is not the truth. You are the medium of all falsification. Through you everything becomes false. When you are not there, the true reflects.” KnowsWayDoeHappensSpiritualityBeliefEgoPerceptionMirrorsAbsenceMediumsManifestationSubtleInterpretationAbyssInterpretingFalsification Author:Rajneesh
“Walking the spiritual path properly is a very subtle process; it is not something to jump into naively. There are numerous sidetracks which leades to a distorted, ego-centered version of spirituality; we can deceive ourselves into thinking we are developing spiritually when instead we are strengthening our egocentricity through spiritual techniques. This fundamental distortion may be referred to as spiritual materialism” ThinkingMaySpiritualSpiritSpiritualityProcessPathWalkingEgoFundamentalsTechniqueVersionsDevelopingSubtleMaterialismDeceivingDistortionSpiritual PathStrengthening Author:Chogyam Trungpa
“The ego is a subtle wall around you. It does not allow anybody to enter into you. You feel protected, secure, but this security is deathlike. It is the security of the plant inside the seed. The plant is afraid to sprout because - who knows? The world is so hazardous and the plant will be so soft, so fragile. Behind the wall of the seed, hiding inside the cell, everything is protected.” KnowsWorldFeelsDoeBehindsSecurityWallEgoPlantSeedsSecureCellsSubtleHidingFragileProtectedSprouts Author:Rajneesh
“Each child is poisoned by the society through teaching him ambition. Ambition is a poison far more dangerous than any alcohol can ever be, far more dangerous than marijuana or LSD, because ambition destroys your whole life. It keeps you moving in a false direction. It keeps you imagining, desiring, dreaming, it keeps you wasting your life. Ambition means a subtle creation of the ego, and once the ego is created you are in the grip of darkness. And the whole social structure depends on ambition.” MeanChildrenWholeDreamMovingSocialDarknessTeachingDangerousCreationDependsEgoAmbitionStructureAlcoholWhole LifePoisonSubtleMarijuanaMoving InLsdSocial StructureLife Ambition Author:Rajneesh
“Will power is nothing but another name of ego power. A man of wisdom has no will, just as he has no mind - because to will means to keep yourself separate from existence. It is a little subtle, but try to feel it. The moment you will it means you are always willing against things as they are. You want them to be some other way.” MenWayWantFeelsTryingMindMeanLittlesMomentsNamesExistenceWillingEgoSubtleWill Power Author:Rajneesh
“The ego is not a thing but a subtle effort, and you cannot use effort to get rid of effort - you end up with two efforts instead of one. The ego itself is a perfect manifestation of the Divine, and it is best handled by resting in Freedom, not by trying to get rid of it, which simply increases the effort of the ego itself” TryingTwoEndsUsePerfectEffortDivineEgoIncreaseManifestationSubtlePerfect Man Book:One Taste Source: One Taste
“That is again the same story played on a more subtle level. That's what the religious people have been doing down the ages - pious egoists they have been. They have made their ego even more decorated; it has taken the color of religion and holiness. Your ego is better than the ego of a saint; your ego is better, far better - because your ego is very gross, and the gross ego can be understood and dropped more easily than the subtle. The subtle ego goes on playing such games that it is very difficult. One will need absolute awareness to watch it.” PeopleNeedsHas BeensMadeStoriesAgeGamesDifficultReligiousLevelsWatchesTakenAwarenessColorGoes OnEgoUnderstoodAbsolutesSaintHolinessSubtleGrossPious Author:Rajneesh
“It is one of the greatest problems. It will appear very paradoxical, but this is true - before you can lose your ego, you must attain it. Only a ripe fruit falls to the ground. Ripeness is all. An unripe ego cannot be thrown, cannot be destroyed. And if you struggle with an unripe ego to destroy and dissolve it, the whole effort is going to be a failure. Rather than destroying it, you will find it more strengthened, in new and subtle ways.” IfsWayWholeProblemFallLosesEffortStruggleEgoFruitDestroyedThrownSubtleDestroyingRipeParadoxicalRipe FruitRipeness Author:Rajneesh