Are We Using Spirituality to Truly Grow or Just Feeding Our Ego's Desires?

Ego's tricks

"One of the great dangers of transformational work is that the ego attempts to sidestep deep psychological work by leaping into the transcendent too soon. This is because the ego always fancies itself much more 'advanced' than it actually is."

-- Don Richard Riso and Russ Hudson

The Tibetan teacher, Chogyam Trungpa, warned of the trap of spiritual materialism. He says we must be ever diligent to spot the ego's use of the spiritual journey to further its own ends.

We may think it's spiritual to yearn for divine connection. And yet, if the longing is to fill an emptiness inside, just how does this differ from the one who yearns for money or possessions to fill the inner void? Do we look to our spiritual practices as proof of our evolved consciousness or as protection against fears?

Any time we use spiritual disciplines to maintain our identity and security, we are not yet on the path of genuine spiritual development.



"Enlightenment is ego's ultimate disappointment."

-- Chögyam Trungpa

Yes, EGO is the biggest enemy of your success. Any tricks to have control over it? (Apart from meditation and such)

Regards,

Kiran.

Questioning oneself could be one of the possible ways. Am I right? Can you share a few more, Kiran? I'm sure there will not be one specific method but a number of small ways to have control over it. Friends, share a few thoughts on this.

Regards,
Rupa

Hi Rupa,

The one you suggested is actually a very good way.

Hmmm... as a matter of fact, I am not sure, but nowadays, I feel that I myself am suffering from this problem. That is the reason I asked the question. Anyhow, give me some time. I will come out with a way to know if we are having this problem or not (sometimes one's pride also shows up as EGO). If we are having this EGO problem, what to do and stuff.

Regards,
Kiran

Hi Sonit,

I never knew that you have this habit of writing articles. Good habit, Sonit. The way you started the article was very good (purely practical). I love reading or listening to real-life experiences of anyone, provided they are interested in sharing. However, after completing reading your article, I cannot tell you exactly what it is lacking, but it definitely is lacking something. I am a great reader of non-fiction books, so after reading many non-fiction works, all I can say is that your article is lacking a bit of force or drive that is required to draw the attention of the readers.

Finally, Sonit, I would be very glad if you do not misunderstand my above writings. I just wanted to let you know my frank feelings so that you can work on them (if you feel that they have at least some sense) and become a good article writer.

Regards,
Kiran

Hi Kiran,

Thanks, buddy. I really appreciate your feedback and will work on it. This is the only reason why I have posted it on the forum. I wanted honest feedback and not the sugar-coated ones. Thanks again; I will definitely work on it and post it again.

Regards,
Sonit Singh

Kiran ..Hats off to sonit ..He has given me a direction (new one )to find solution forthe same ..problem of Ego that we all face today ..

The first Para on it enables me to think that how adamant we ourselves are to ourselves ..

which is directly linked to examples that sonit gave about his father ,brother ..

People tell us,gives us suggestion but we so adamant that we just want to do wht we want todo ..

Solu:-- What i thought today is we should atleast give athought to what people are telling us ,reason them out ..bye accepting and analysing we donot become small.. we become more logical to life ...i think i will do this and practise this to overcome my self s ego ..what do u guys say any suggestion?

Sonit ! but i have a question :- I am sorry if i offend you on this ..but i will like to share ...

here atlast you realised that yes there is something (microsoft) which has suggest you for YOUR error ...

You have REALISED it that its an ERROR and something(Microsoft)is Right.

then You should accept it and Change

Dont you think so?

What ever you told to us was your realisation ..Keep up !!

what you ultimately did was ur EGObeing just adamant for no reasons..

If you understood that what was suggested toyou was right whts the harm in accepting ya .. i know this is the most difficult thing but this how we all can overcome ..what do u say ?am i right

Summary :-

Understand the Problem

Listen to suggestion

Give your thoughts to it

analyse

be logical --useful or not

If yes USE it ..

Orelse do what youfeel is right ..

what do u say my friends ..Please help me .. and cast ur views and opinions on it ..

Hi Rupa,

Thank you for your feedback; it was really good and made me feel that I can continue writing. Here is the reason why I didn't work on the changes suggested by MS-Word: it suggested me to change the title of the article, which I didn't want to do because I thought that this title was apt for the article. Moreover, it didn't suggest a change for it, just showed an error, and that's it. So, I was left with no alternative but to ignore the suggestion.

Thanks a ton, buddy, for everything and especially for the summary that you had drafted.

Regards,
Sonit Singh

Hi Rupa,

What you said was completely acceptable and agreeable. The reason why you could write this is because you were in full senses and were aware of the issue that we are discussing.

Now, the reason why I didn't change the title of the article despite knowing it is grammatically incorrect is, "I initially just took off something to write, I didn't have a specific issue to write on. But when I got this error, I thought, what a dumb software, is it trying to teach me?"

All this just because of my ego, but then if I would have changed the title, there wouldn't have been much to write about, so I continued with the same.

All your observations and suggestions are completely correct, and I am in complete agreement with you.

Regards,
Sonit Singh