jfezl07@googlemail.com wrote:

It has been jettisoned.

Tang Huyen

"Allen L. Barker" wrote:

Keep mindfulness, drop everything else,
if possible. Implementation may require
modulation.

Tang Huyen

"^@%%>---*=#" wrote:

This situation with belief is poignant
when it involves oneself dealing with
oneself, in closed circle. One invests
oneself in making oneself believe
something about oneself, and one's
entire existence hangs on the balance.
Once one can't convince oneself about
the issue any longer, one collapses and
implodes, all from one's own energy.
One forgets that wishing doesn't make
it so.

Tang Huyen

What *exactly* is The Ego?

[In most of my reading, it seems like everyone just knows that I know
what The Ego is... I do NOT! Do you?]

Does anyone have a real definition? I mean, that is absolutely clear
and comprehensive!

Have you ever read a clear and exhaustive definition in any book?
Online? Can you point us to it??

Is The Ego simply the "sense-of-self" that we humans have? Is it NOT
simple??

Do Apes have An Ego?
How about my Cat?
Does an Amoeba?
What about a Rock?
The vacuum of space??

How is The Ego related to the fact that we humans are Conscious? Are
Consciousness and Awareness identical?

What is the difference between Awareness and Self-Awareness?

Does a creature have to have Self-Awareness (whatever that is) to have
an Ego?

Déjà Fu wrote:

"Techno thought that religions and spiritual belief systems were
carefully woven psychological constructs that offered individual and
group survival, reproduction, adaptation, and proliferation value to
their members. Religions and spirituality satisfied many human
needs,
including ones for group bonding, and for a sense of belonging to
something much more powerful than the weak, sometimes lost self. That
viewpoint really wouldn't make much of a sermon, he thought.

It didn't matter if there was really a God or not, religions and
spiritual systems worked to help propagate genes and the associated
beliefs, and, after all, the brain was pre-wired for spiritual and
religious experience, showing how important and strong the whole
thing
was for humans. Religions may have been in the forefront for
stimulating the imaginative powers of the frontal cortex. Techo
couldn't help but wonder how a mature God Machine would answer the
same question."

From GodSeed, due to be out this summer by Scott Richard Campbell

"Techno thought that religions and spirituality belief systems were
carefully woven psychological constructs that offered individual and
group survival, reproduction, adaptation, and proliferation value to
their members. Religions and spiritual satisfied many human needs,
including ones for group bonding, and for a sense of belonging to
something much more powerful than your weak, sometimes lost self. That
viewpoint really wouldn't make much of a sermon, he thought.

It didn't matter if there was really a God or not, religions and
spiritual systems worked to help propagate genes and the associated
beliefs, and, after all, the brain was pre-wired for spiritual and
religious experience, showing how important and strong the whole thing
was for humans. Religions may have been in the forefront for
stimulating the imaginative powers of the frontal cortex. Techo
couldn't help but wonder how a mature God Machine would answere the
same question."

From GodSeed, due to be out this summer by Scott Richard Campbell

The February update to the Buddhist bibliography of more than 6,000
books is now online at :
http://www.golden-wheel.net/buddbib.html
while the Buddhist directory is still at :
http://www.golden-wheel.net/buddlinks.html
and the Buddhist pictures at :
http://www.golden-wheel.net/buddpic.html
while the Buddhist history chronology is still at :
http://www.golden-wheel.net/buddates.html

Enjoy your reading !

Lifeform wrote:

You have summarily imposed your criterion
on others, in that to you, grace seems to be
the saving factor, and absence of humility
conflicts with it.