[OceanofDharma] Quotes of the Week: Egolessness Is Letting Go

[Carolyn Gimian]

Ocean of Dharma Quotes of the Week

July 23, 2009

EGOLESSNESS IS LETTING GO

"Egolessness" does not mean that nothing exists, as some have 
thought, a kind of nihilism. Instead, it means that you can let go of 
your habitual patterns and then when you let do, you genuinely let 
go. You do not re-create or rebuild another shell immediately 
afterward. Once you let go, you do not just start all over again. 
Egolessness is having the trust to not rebuild again at all and 
experiencing the psychological healthiness and freshness that goes 
with not rebuilding. The truth of egolessness can only be experienced 
fully through meditation practice.

 From "The Meeting of Buddhist and Western Psychology," in THE SANITY 
WE ARE BORN WITH: A BUDDHIST APPROACH TO PSYCHOLOGY, page 10.

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