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Common to many transformative experiences is the dissolution of the self, including loss of ego and the body it is chained to.
Christof Koch • Then I Am Myself the World: What Consciousness Is and How to Expand It
abhidharma, the Buddhist system of psychology.
Jack Kornfield • Seeking the Heart of Wisdom: The Path of Insight Meditation (Shambhala Classics)
It hadn’t been the speech of a monk detached from earthly concerns, but that of someone keenly aware of his own interests.
Shelley Parker-Chan • She Who Became the Sun (The Radiant Emperor Book 1)
Suzuki’s essays. “What is the Dharma-Body of the Buddha?” (“The Dharma-Body of the Buddha” is another way of saying Mind, Suchness, the Void, the Godhead.)
Aldous Huxley • The Doors of Perception and Heaven and Hell
For most of us, our self-protective, habitual ways of being in the world inevitably reassert themselves.
Barry Magid • Ending the Pursuit of Happiness: A Zen Guide
That bewilderment acts as the basic ground, the secondary basic ground of ego, away from the primordial basic ground [ = mahamudra].15
Reginald A. Ray • Secret of the Vajra World
It is fundamental to every school of Buddhism that there is no ego, no enduring entity which is the constant subject of our changing experiences. For the ego exists in an abstract sense alone, being an abstraction from memory, somewhat like the illusory circle of fire made by a whirling torch. We can, for example, imagine the path of a bird through
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