Zen Master Dae Kwang on How to get rid of Ego.
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- Опубліковано 7 жов 2024
- Given during Zen Meditation Class, conducted at Kwan Yin Chan Lin Zen Meditation Centre. Singapore
Teachers: Zen Master Dae Kwang, Ven. Chi Boon (Gye Mun Sunim)
Translator : Leow Wee Kheng
Lesson #2
14/Mar 2015 Question & Answer Session.
Question 2. Everybody has an ego. How do we let go of the ego?
Trying to get rid of the ego is the biggest ego trip of all. The ego doesn’t even exist. Like he said, fighting with the ego to get rid of it makes it like it’s real.
I like that he speaks so simple, practical
Thank you for the teaching
I love the little translation battle at the beginning....
:holds up the object: "this. Is. mine....."
::looks at the translator:: *your move*
Lol they both appreciated the transaction. And so did I 🌷
I like this video so much. That I downloaded it and listen to it many times. To remember. Not attach.
Buddhism and a Chinese lesson nice
Lego of my ego.
George Harrison with the Beatles:
I Me Mine.
Never understood the lyric:
Even those tears.
Dae Kwang: My watch, I miss my watch.
Now I do.
All through' the day
I me mine, I me mine, I me mine.
All through' the night
I me mine, I me mine, I me mine.
Now they're frightened of leaving it
Ev'ryone's weaving it,
Coming on strong all the time,
All through' the day I me mine.
I-I-me-me mine, I-I-me-me mine,
I-I-me-me mine, I-I-me-me mine.
All I can hear
I me mine, I me mine, I me mine.
Even those tears
I me mine, I me mine, I me mine.
No-one's frightened of playing it
Ev'ryone's saying it,
Flowing more freely than wine,
All through' the day I me mine.
I-I-me-me mine, I-I-me-me mine,
I-I-me-me mine, I-I-me-me mine.
All I can hear
I me mine, I me mine, I me mine.
Even those tears
I me mine, I me mine, I me mine.
No-one's frightened of playing it
Ev'ryone's saying it,
Flowing more freely than wine,
All through' your life I me mine.
yin and yang we need it to learn we become stronger if i think positive/ change the attitude regarding the ego and find a solution why this ego has become im a line cook and im surrounded by ego's as well as my own im learning everyday
thank you
Lao Su said: When I let go of what I am, I become what I might be.
Lao Tzu*
Thats true...whatever u take so it...so real...so important u give power 2...its not worthy...its how u get played by the play of thoughts we call mind.
is it me or does the guy in the middle look like john locke from lost tv show.
Ian Pearson i don’t even know who John lock is but I know exactly who your talking about!
Small bit of Creed from the office in there too!
GREATEST way of defeating ego (for those who realy want it ) is to get yourself in a situation where you have to be humble....you ll find its quite difficult to humble yourself before a younger man who is let say not your superior
Try jiu jitsu. Get humbled real quick by dudes half your size.
He gets everyone laughing 😜🤣
4:46 The Chinese name of Asanga is 無著 (Wúzhuó)
Asanga - Wikipedia
Asaṅga (fl. 4th century C.E.) was "one of the most important spiritual figures" of Mahayana Buddhism and the "founder of the Yogachara
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You can get rid of your ego, it's what makes us human. You have to learn how to work with your ego
who wants to get rid of the ego is the ego, so you fall for your own trap, second trap is the spiritual path
I have an ego as I have to protect myself to a certain extend, simply because I have to survive. Thinking we can get rid of our ego is an illusion. A spiritual trap. One could also say; I have a bank account, but I am not my bank account. As long as I have something and not being that something I am fine with it.
Have you experienced egoless-ness as others have? If not, I'm not sure the value of your comment.
@@dominiclloyd6651 ....and who is the observer of that "egoless- ness" you refer to ? and who is the experiencer? Is time involved?
@@krijnnl The 'observer' is the real, ego-less you. Once the ego is lost it doesn't mean a loss of abilities, in fact it sharpens them, because one has a fuller awareness of the present. Do you think Lao Tzu or the Buddha lost the ability to survive? I would say they flourished.
@@dominiclloyd6651 Ahhh, here we have it; the Atman! Sorry, I do not want to be disrespectfull, but I do not buy this. One can develop more awareness, but it is still part of the mind which is " thinking' What is behind the word? It is the image. What is behind the image. It is the understanding. behind understanding? Imagination. Or not? Very funny. Let me not go into my personal "experiences" as they have no value for anyone. I am 64 now, but I still remember when someone years ago asked me a question. "What did you learn after a search of nearly 30 years ? That question striked a nerve inside me. "I know that I do not know. That is all I know" maybe we are looking for something that does not exist. was it not Buddha who said that to live is to suffer? Well, sometimes it is. Sometimes not. (Lol)
@@krijnnl I do not think you disrespectful, but I ask you again - have you ever experienced egoless-ness? I have and it renders what you're saying redundant because you're trying to intellectualise something that has nothing to do with the intellect. When the ego disolves one realises that one is within everything, that doesn't mean you can't eat, or take care of your physical needs, it means that you realise that the 'you' you've been attached to is not the real 'you'. That 'real you' is an indivisible, incorruptable part of the everything. Unfortunately, because language is limiting, I've had to use the word 'you' to describe two diffrent things, so you may think I'm just describing things that are similar, but I can promise you they're not. I too hope I have caused no offence.
Everyone has or can have an Egoic Self or Ego, however the Buddha teaches NOT to hold or cling onto it, otherwise more Sufferings.
Meaning, neither reject nor accept your Ego - but to transcend it in our life.
However regardless, the iconic 6th Patriarch says - sufferings are always there because we have a human physical body which comes from birth, suffers pains of growing up, ageing, decay, ailments & sickness to eventually death!
So that to endeavor complete eradication of sufferings in oneself and others - is delusory or a myth!
Thank you
@@marvo888
🙏🙏
In Confucian culture this "ego" teaching is very difficult due to filial piety and obsessions with legacy building and family name.
🙏🏻🍀
Is it the case that the desire to lose the ego is an egoistic idea?
answers on a postcard, please... I'm onwards bound...
Practicing functional dementia
Is the planet moving to a new path, were is roll... Towards darknes
But how it feel different from trying to get rid of thoughts or just letting them float by or ignoring them, how to notice which one im doing? What if i am actually fighting to ignore them?
I think when you are having these thoughts and you say to yourself "i must ignore them" you are already fighting theme.
By letting them float by it is meant to not pay any attention to these thoughts. Not following them, not fighting them but also not trying to ignore theme, just let them be and do not get (like he said) attached to it.
yeah, learned some methods, now i know difference
Ukkostimi Alan Watts has an answer to that one 😁
take a every thing with a pinch of sand, my friend
I'm just sitting here - enjoying a lack of pain or distress - my thoughts don't need to fire every which way - because i'm content. I got here by expending myself until I gave up - I'll try to remember things got well when I stopped interfering :)
I think there is mercy in nature - a default state - I don't need to know or understand - I'll just enjoy it while it stays - I feel no other need right now.
uh sorry but you never explained how not to get attached or how you let go! It's always there, even when I meditate!
You don't think about it, even trying that makes you think about it,so what is that you are thinking just do it and move on. Flow with the flow, when u think you are stuck. Take action. Thats how you let go.
1 Cannot live without "thought " . It is because, you cannot accept the reality or you are scared.
There is a life after physical death. Think about it
The monk on the left seems to be tapping into some arcane power to absorb the life force and karma-tic energies of the Monk in the center speaking The Buddhist teacher speaking seems unaware that the audience is using some sort of magic to absorb his powers while they ask him questions about Ego. Lol this is just a joke but seriously consider some of the Religious Rituals and ceremonies you participate in always be careful when you dabble into Religion because it is magic that you may not understand.
take 1/8 + magic mushrooms kills ego
Zippline123 Haha
You cannot get rid of a fictious entity that has no independent existence, they should know that.
Damn
My dear fellow seeker. At a certain moment you mentioned (another video) to forget about Buddha. If It present itself as a zen/ (buddhist) master.Even change the given name by birth Dress like it.Talk like it. It usually is a ....
Take off your robe . Forget about Zen and try to master any "situation" Life impose on you.
Let your neighbors discover you before you make yourself known to them. That also goes for me ofcourse