12-02-2011, 01:42 PM
(12-02-2011, 12:55 AM)Observer Wrote: Ego.
I have trouble taming it I would say. What helps?
A life review helps.
In the Carlos Castaneda books, Don Juan talks about a "recapitulation," like a life review. When done, one sees all the folly over and over again, and detachment then follows (paraphrasing and simplifying the concept). I started one--it is a monumental project--and even just by do a portion of it, my perspective changed enormously, losing emotional charge to "beliefs," "being right," and people (emotional charge engages the ego).