
Ego, Liberation, and Meditation - 10jan23
EGO: it is NOT a Sanskrit, nor a Pali word. It comes from the Greek, and was popularized in the west by a Viennese physician, more than a hundred years ago. Though NOT directly mentioned by the Buddha, its function is inferred by the second noble truth as that ancient survival mechanism which strives to use pushing, pulling, and clinging in service of our competitive reward system. And although it DOES support reproduction (and its prerequisites) in an irony worthy of O’ Henr