Tag: ego
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How Immense Suffering Can Make the Mind Spiral Toward Enlightenment
No one seeks suffering.No one wants to be broken open.And yet, throughout history, many people have discovered that their deepest awakening came not through comfort or ease, but through a collapse — an unraveling, a loss, a moment where life became unbearable. This is one of the paradoxes of the spiritual path: Suffering can destroy…
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How the Ego Builds Itself Around the Thought of “Me” — and How Nirvana Reveals Egolessness
Most of the human experience unfolds around a subtle assumption: there is a separate someone inside this body who owns thoughts, desires, successes, and failures.This assumption is the root of the ego. But it’s also the root of suffering. Many spiritual traditions — especially Buddhism — point out that when this illusion is seen through,…
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