Talk:Egolessness

message: Should this article be merged into Anatta, the actual term for the Buddhist concept of "egolessness"? Jpatokal 08:29, 1 Apr 2004 (UTC)
thread_title: Merger proposal

message: The wholesale removal of quotes has obscured an important distinction between types of "Samadhi". As a result, the remaining information now seems misleading. Furthermore, while the current article says "He wrote the following about the relative difficulties of attaining" mystic states of two kinds, the quote that follows these words actually addresses a different topic. (Namely, our knowledge regarding the means of attaining various states.) Y'all removed the quotes about relative difficulty as "irrelevant". Dan 23:13, 31 March 2006 (UTC)
thread_title:  Crowley quotes 

message: I've totally lost ego on a few occasions. There was nothing left of me. All my concerns, my anxieties, beliefs, my motives - GONE. Instead there was an indescribable oceanic feeling of empathy. Even the walls in buildings and the sky itself felt empathetic. Ego-death is totally, incomparably amazing. 74.195.28.79 (talk) 20:09, 19 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title: Let's not interpret too much

message: Socalled egolessness and its interpretations are an important (buddhist?) topic. Some of the problems might find a place here. Khandro Rinpoche,.
:Austerlitz -- 88.75.199.39 (talk) 12:14, 30 November 2008 (UTC)
thread_title:  Khandro Rinpoche 

message: It is highly conflicted, seems to be the result of the uncoordinated efforts of psychology students, lay meditators, and drug users; it includes no references, and contradicts itself multiple times through a failure to define terms.
I think a number of confusions might be cleared up by a single, thoughtful, concise article or section defining ego (spiritual concept) and ego (psychoanalytic concept) as two separate terms.  —Preceding unsigned comment added by 24.7.179.143 (talk) 05:38, 13 August 2010 (UTC)
thread_title: This page ought to just be deleted

message: "One would describe a set of acts as "selfless" (altruistic) when they are not selfish—when they benefit others more than oneself".
True or complete egolessness can only occur when, as a result of Self-Enquiry, the individualised ego has been examined and found not to exist. Hence selfishness and unselfishness are untenable states incompatible with that consciousness.There ARE no 'others'.
The position is similar to that of one sleeping, dreaming of 'himself' and others; 'he' has food but the rest are starving - should he share with them - or machine-gun them? If the former, ego will flourish on a sense of decency or righteousness; if the latter, ego may require him to dream of a dream prison, in which he is punished.Upon waking, it is evident that none of these people were real, not even his dream 'self', and that all his actions were unreal.
But so long as he is asleep, it is wise to imagine that decency and righteousness exist, and behave accordingly. Koroke (talk) 20:21, 14 December 2013 (UTC)
thread_title:  Selfishness 

message: I've merged this page, after removing all the unsourced info and WP:OR, to Ego death. Joshua Jonathan -Let's talk! 07:23, 23 November 2014 (UTC)
thread_title: Merged