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| Alphabetical [« »] efficiently 1 effort 18 efforts 4 ego 12 ego-boosting 1 ego-created 1 ego-idea 1 | Frequency [« »] 13 whole 12 am 12 birth 12 ego 12 four 12 full 12 individual | VV.AA. (R. Bogoda, Susan Elbaum Jootla, & M.O'C. Walshe) The Buddhist Layman IntraText - Concordances ego |
Essay
1 3| may get a shock. ~By the ego (or self) in Buddhism we 2 3| Freudian terms is called the ego, but also the id and even 3 3| us the basic idea. This ego of ours is a complex and 4 3| than the first one: the ego is the most ruthlessly gluttonous 5 3| They are the things the ego fattens on. Equally impressive 6 3| the Buddhist everybody's ego practically consists of 7 3| way of bolstering up the ego, whether in cruder or subtle 8 3| consolation of a disappointed ego. And the hall-mark of a 9 3| very simple reason: to the ego it seems like death. This 10 3| fact it is the death of ego. And since we have no real 11 3| uncovering the subterfuges of the ego. The Buddha described it 12 4| to a false picture of the ego. Put negatively, it is a