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We just can’t bring ourselves to read a book by Eckhart Tolle. We know, it’s a disservice to you all, but to be completely honest, we find our divinity more in pop culture than spiritual culture these days.
But the effects of Tolle echoed from the Niagara Gazette today, and it was an ugly sound we heard:
Not too long ago, however, I realized that my ego was getting louder and louder, yammering at me from the moment my feet hit the floor in the morning. Standing in front of the bathroom mirror, my hair askew and my face still wrinkled from my pillow, my ego was already in full boar.
This writer is confused, and it’s Tolle’s fault. That’s not the woman’s ego criticizing herself, it’s a tiny piece of it, one of probably many sub-personalities. She’s still identified as an ego, only attached to a different piece of it, the one that thinks it’s not the ego, the one that Tolle is locking people into by giving them this horrible idea as to what ego really is.
We can agree when Tolle lays the blame for most evil with the ego, but he also wouldn’t be able to charge you more for sitting closer to him if he didn’t have one himself.
Put Tolle’s ideas into the head of a person who has the wrong idea of ego, like this woman, and suddenly you’ve got folks who believe their ego is just their bitchy side. There are plenty of supposedly enlightened gurus who have a bitchy side, so that’s obviously not a problem. In fact, the problem ends up having nothing to do with the personality (the defacto definition of ‘ego’ in the West) at all.
Of all the things we have going on in our heads, our living truth as the Self is the secret hiding in plain sight. But something is getting in the way of seeing what’s always right [t]here. We like to lay some of the blame on the ideas about enlightenment that get projected into our heads by spiritual culture, but that can’t be all of it. Apparently, Tolle wants you to think it’s your mean and bitchy side, and he’s now on a world-saving tear in support of his book that tells us about it.
We’re all for a bit more peace, and perhaps Tolle has a greater chance of bringing it than TM™ ass-bouncers, but the confusion about ego and personality he’s introducing along the way will always be piss in any peace he can bring.
SOURCE: guruphiliac.blogspot.com
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