The Path to the Self Leads Through Depersonalization
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Summary: Shunyamurti answers a student’s question about stuckness: How do I deal with the ego’s narrative of not being good enough and not having enough willpower to move forward on the path—after many years, I still feel stuck at the beginning of the process, and I can’t make a commitment to do what needs to be done.
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Michael Little
6 Apr 2021What happened to me was that I came to realize the entirety of my life experience was actually nothing more than an ongoing, internal series of thoughts, emotions, perceptions and so on. That none of it was (nor could it have been) orchestrated by anyone, or anything, other than myself. It was all a narrative I had written in ignorance, responded to accordingly, and hence, came to believe in…
And that self-scripted story had seemingly arisen and taken on a life of its own; a life we call ‘the ego’.
Ann Waters
7 Apr 2021My ego wants to go through its death, and it shall, with my physical death. My lack of an integrated self was forced upon me by the sadism, abuse, and negligence of my parents, most notably my pathologically narcissistic mother. I guess I had VERY BAD KARMA from a past life, I really like not feeling a victim, and instead feeling I had something to learn