Inter- Faiths Dialogue

Detachement > from Ego, I and mine

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T he lower self is like a thief who sneaks into your house at night to steal whatever is valuable and worthwhile. You cannot fight this thief directly, because it will mirror whatever force you bring against it. If you have a gun, the thief will also have a gun. If you have a knife, the thief will have a knife as well. Tol struggle with the thief is to invite disaster. So, what can you do?
The only practical solution is to turn on the light. The thief, who is a coward at heart, will then run out. How do we turn on the light? Through the practice of remembrance, awareness, and heedfulness.

quote 2892 | Others Sufis Teaching
Sheikh Tosun Bayrak, Essential Sufism, by James Fadiman & Robert Frager, Harper SanFrancisco, p.71

O ne way to train the lower self is to resist its desires. However, if wish to resist, we know that we must not resist by opposing or suppressing it; for when we do, it will rear up somewhere else, seeking gratification of its desires.

quote 2890 | Others Sufis Teaching
Traditional, Essential Sufism, by James Fadiman & Robert Frager, Harper SanFrancisco, p.71

T hose who are controlled by the lower self must serve it; those who control the lower self serve others.

quote 2889 | Others Sufis Teaching
Traditional, Essential Sufism, by James Fadiman & Robert Frager, Harper SanFrancisco, p.71

T hose who are dead to their lower selves are alive with God.

quote 2888 | Others Sufis Teaching
Traditional, Essential Sufism, by James Fadiman & Robert Frager, Harper SanFrancisco, p.71

I f you treat your lower self with affection, you will never be saved from it.

quote 2887 | Others Sufis Teaching
Traditional, Essential Sufism, by James Fadiman & Robert Frager, Harper SanFrancisco, p.71

T he lower self prevents you from remembering God.

quote 2886 | Others Sufis Teaching
Traditional, Essential Sufism, by James Fadiman & Robert Frager, Harper SanFrancisco, p.70

A s long as your lower self rules your heart, you will never lose your love of this world.

quote 2885 | Others Sufis Teaching
Traditional, Essential Sufism, by James Fadiman & Robert Frager, Harper SanFrancisco, p.70

I f you could get rid
Of yourself just once,
The secret of secrets
Would open to you.
The face of the unknown,
Hidden beyond the universe
Would appear on the
Mirror of your perception.

quote 2860 | Jalâl ud Dîn Rumi
Essential Sufism, by James Fadiman & Robert Frager, Harper SanFrancisco, p.23

T here is a battle between the self, the lower self, and the soul. This battle will continue through life. The question is, Who will educate whom? Who will become the master of whom? If the soul becomes the master, then you will be a believer, one who embraces Truth. If the lower self becomes master of the soul, you will be one who denies Truth.

quote 2859 | Sheikh Muzaffer
Essential Sufism, by James Fadiman & Robert Frager, Harper SanFrancisco, p.21

T herefore, I say, if a man turns away from self and from created things, then - to the extent that you do this - you will attain oneness and blessedness in your soul's spark, which time and place never touched.

quote 2821 | Meister Eckhart
Meister Eckhart, from the translation by Jonathan Star in Two Suns Rising (New York: Bantam, 1991).

I n the Scriptures we read: "I stood between the Lord and you." The "I" stands between God and us. When a man says "I" and presumes to use his Maker's word, he is shutting himself off from him. But there is no dividing wall before him who sacrifices his 'I" For of him it is written: "I am my beloved's, and his desire is toward me!' When my "I" comes to belong to my beloved, then his desire is toward me.

quote 2740 | Martin Buber
Martin Buber’s ten rungs, collected Hassidic saying, p.19

I t is more than ever necessary to keep yourself free from all taint of the perversions of the ego.

quote 2710 | Aurobindo Ghose
All for her, in the Teaching of the Hindu Mystics, by Andrew Harvey, Shambala.

I f YOU WANT to be a true doer of divine works, your first aim must be to be totally free from all desire and self regarding ego.

quote 2706 | Aurobindo Ghose
All for her, in the Teaching of the Hindu Mystics, by Andrew Harvey, Shambala.

W ith repeated practice in this manner, the mind will develop the skill to stay in its source. When the mind that is subtle goes out through the brain and the sense-organs, the gross names and forms appear; when it stays in the heart, the names and forms disappear. Not letting the mind go out but retaining it in the Heart is what is called "inwardness (antar-mukha). Letting the mind to go out of the Heart is known as "externalization" (bahirmukha). Thus, when the mind stays in the Heart, the "I" which is the source of all thoughts will go, and the Self which ever exists will shine. Whatever one does, one should do without the egoity “I" If one acts in that way, all will appear as of the nature of Shiva (God).

quote 2703 | Ramana Maharshi
The Collected Works of Ramana Maharshi (Tiruvannamailai, India: Sri Ramanasraman, 1979).

W hat is the path of inquiry for understanding the nature of the mind?
That which rises as 'I' in this body is the mind. If one inquires as to where in the body the thought "I" rises first, one would discover that it rises in the heart. That is the place of the mind's origin. Even if one thinks constantly "I" one will be led to that place. Of all the thoughts that arise in the mind, the "I" thought is the first. It is only after the rise of this that the other thoughts arise. It is after the appearance of the first personal pronoun that the second and third personal pronouns appear; without the first personal pronoun there will not be the second and third.

quote 2701 | Ramana Maharshi
The Collected Works of Ramana Maharshi (Tiruvannamailai, India: Sri Ramanasraman, 1979).

T hat one I love who is incapable of ill will, who is friendly and compassionate. Living beyond the reach of I and mine and of pleasure and pain, patient, contented, self-controlled, firm in faith, with all his heart and all his mind given to me-with such a one I am in love.
Not agitating the world or by it agitated, he stands above the sway of competition and fear: he is my beloved.

quote 2667 | The Bhagavat Gita
translated by Eknath Easwaran, Nilgiri Press, Tomales, California

I f a son or daughter wishes to study the profound Prajna-paramita, how is he to do so?
The Noble Avalokitesvara replied to the Venerable Sariputra, saying: If a son or daughter wishes to study the profound Prajna-paramita, he must first get rid of all ideas of ego-selfness. Let him think thus: Personality? What is personality? Is it an enduring entity? Or is it made up of elements that pass away? Personality is made up of the five grasping aggregates: form, sensation, perception, discrimination, consciousness, all of which are by nature empty of any self-substance.

quote 2512 | The Maha Prajna Paramita
Hridaya, in Dwight Goddard, A Buddhist bible, p. 85

T herefore, I say, the Perfect One has won complete deliverance through the extinction, fading away, disappearance, rejection, and getting rid of all opinions and conjectures, of all inclination to the vainglory of I and mine.

quote 2480 | Buddha Sakyamuni
Majjhima Nikaya, 72

W e can handle things as they are if we do not impose our ego on them. The sage gives things every benefit and forgets his own ego.
To let the ego be unrestrained is to give rein to feelings; to give rein to feelings is to be beclouded; and to be beclouded is to be darkened.

quote 2347 | Shao Yong
Shao Yung, Supreme Principle Governing the World (Huang-Chi Ching Shu), 8B: 27b, in Wing-Tsit Chan, Chinese Philosophy, Chapter 29

A ren't you asking a good question!"
Tzu-chi replied. "Do you know that I have just lost my self?

quote 2215 | Tchuang Tzu
Chuang Tzu, chapter II, in Wing-Tsit Chan, Chinese Philosophy, Chapter 8.

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