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one looks for a spiritual path to get rid of egotism .. finds something, and makes it serve his own ego, arrogance and cleverness … fills his empty head with various ideas
when an ordinary being (like me) fills his ideas with spiritual concepts, the situation is almost hopeless
the savior here is life itself that always teaches us lessons in humility. “thank god” for impermanence and dukkha
all the clever props don’t serve anything.and the debt for past karma, for past pride and vanity, has to be paid in full until the last penny
when this beating down of the ego goes on on can either react and create more karma or try to patiently endure it
usually i’ve always done the former let’s try with the latter for once
Knowing that impermanence is swift, and birth and death is an important matter, you have come specially to ask about the Path. This is indeed the conduct of a real man…Still: who is the one who recognizes impermanence and birth and death like this? And who is the one who has come specially to ask about the Path? If you can discern truly here, Layman, then as we say, “The visage is unique and wondrous: the light shines on the ten directions. We have just made an offering: now we return to our kin.”
–From, A Buddha from Korea