Meditation Amsterdam - The Egoic Mind as per The Power of now
Hi all and greetz from Meditation Amsterdam! Having used the previous blog entry to introduce the main idea within Eckart Tolle’s book The Power of Now, I will dedicate this one to discussing resistance to the now as the main mechanic of the egoic mind. This mechanic is one that is considered normal in daily life, but as we will see ,in its simplicity, it is able to throw our entire life into disarray, and is so deeply ingrained into our psyche that it takes a lifetime of spiritual practice (for some a bit longer) to dissolve. The resistance of the ego is born from our natural desire for pleasurable situations and our natural aversion to unpleasant ones. Sounds simple and normal right? And yet under the view of eastern practices like yoga and meditation , this attitude is considered profoundly dysfunctional, and also born out of an ignorance of “how things really work” and away from which we must cultivate ourselves. To to someone...
