What are some good books that approach the issue of destroying the ego from a spiritual perspective...

What are some good books that approach the issue of destroying the ego from a spiritual perspective? I suppose I’m thinking something vaguely along the lines of the Tibetan Book of the Dead - I want to learn to be less hypersensitive to criticism and less prone to ruminating on sarcastic comments about by people in my life. At the moment I’m consciously choosing to stop blowing my top at the first sight of someone making a snide remark to me in conversation, but it kind of destroys me from within and I’m still thinking about it hours later.

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Bhagavad-Gita

"Ego" as in "ego death" doesn't really mean the same thing as "ego" as in "man, that guy's got a big ego."

Can you explain the difference?

The former is your sense of identity and self, the latter is something like excessive pride. You probably don't want to get rid of the former.

meditate, do some psychedelics, don't take things so personally.

This. The ego is a necessary part of the human process and can be used in a beneficial way to navigate the plane of existence

Is this true, Veeky Forums? Not OP but for the past few months I've been terrified of the idea that I should get rid of my ego (sense of identity and self, not excessive pride). Am I off the hook for this one? Can I live a wise life and still have a sense of identity and self?

Lift and don't be such a faggot

You need to cultivate a detachment from emotions and thoughts, watch them like you would a thrilling drama; or dont, there are no things that need to be done and no ego that needs to be lost.
You decide how you want your experience to be, if you want contentment then there are many avenues to attain it.
Stop using thoughts to determine you and instead just watch the world internally and externally.

The Bhagavad Gita is racist garbage.

Buddists and nihilists are often pariahs and scumbags of earth.
They despise ego for they cant achieve them. They become slaves to their morality for they cant do otherwise. Petty kind and their need for cynic expression. Their love for dispassion is good for women and slaves, and robots perhaps, not for war-faring men. They did not build Roman empire, Romans did.

the bible is racist garbo too
human is racist by instinct. dont believe those lies spread by those socialists and women

if youre a Veeky Forums poster you likely need to worry about not being a maladjusted retard before you worry about " destroying your ego"

How so?

Getting rid of your ego is something that can only really be done temporarily, it would also be retarded to get rid of it permanently. You just need to realize that life isn't just happening inside your head life goes on within you and without you.

The ego is everything and there is no escaping, there is no undermining it. You begin with it and you end with it and any attempt to repress it is just a self-contradicting castration and just as egotistical act as any.
What a poor disgrace Buddhists are. I despise them

hahaha this. Be careful with your self delusion kids.

>You just need to realize that life isn't just happening inside your head

kek for me, yes it absolutely does

Please stop posting

t. brainlet.

Not an argument

please shut up and suffer yoru fate of being silenced, buddist wannabe

Unirinonically, what do you think are some universal characteristics of Veeky Forums posters?

gay and retarded

Read Siddhartha if you haven't already. Also how old are you?

You're delusional. Never read again.

>hurr i have no ego
>go around stroking your ego by claiming you have no ego

biggest crock of hot bullshit i've ever read
get your terrence mckenna shit outta here

what does that have to do with terence mckenna lol?

stop reading so many books and trip acid

Siddhartha
Steppenwolff
Crime and Punishment

>ego
The freudian ego isnt fucking real.

That's exactly what an ego would say

The point of ego death is understanding the significance of yourself as an individual in comparison to humanity as a collective consciousness. If you want to kill your ego kill your individuality and submit yourself to the hivemind, falsified opposition disguising an underlying sense of guidance is a good start, but I think you're looking for .

>You just need to realize life goes on within you and without you.

An ego does not exist on Veeky Forums, you can be whoever you want to be when you shit post. Bring that mentality to the real world, and you’ll see enlightenment come your way

What is the proof that an "ego" exists?

IM 12 AND WHAT IS HAPPENING IN THIS THREAD

Thanks for the advice

yeah, let him experience the melting away of his ego, just to come crawling back to it because he couldn't differentiate between ego, as in the self and ego in terms of having high pride.

she looks like hershalg

Autism clearly

lolled

I agree

6/10, caught me by surprise
he is magnificent, but you are wrong
and you disappoint me
autism, sexual depravity or repression, smelling funny, horrible fashion sense, incapable of taking anything seriously

>autism, sexual depravity or repression, smelling funny, horrible fashion sense, incapable of taking anything seriously

don't forget depression.

You've been tripping too much.

What is the proof that I should give a damn about proving it.

look closely at the image
it looks more like lego than ego

'Ego death' is some new age bullshit dilution based on religious texts that themselves are only vaguely based on the religious texts that came before.
Stop accepting terms at face value.

Seriously, should I read this book?

Keep chasing your tail.

A bit too dramatic for my taste

>they despise ego for they can't achieve them
Everyone develops an ego, retard. Buddhism is an attempt to seperate oneself from one's ego and liberate oneself from material or egoistic concerns that only serve to hold us down.
Either you're defining ego differently or you have no clue what you're talking about.

How could I chase my tail if my tail doesn't exist wiseguy?

It exists in your mind. That's his point: you're chasing something thay doesn't even exist.

this

yes

yes, yes you should. I know it seems like a meme but it's actually decent.

My mind is all that exists

naturalthinker.net/trl/texts/McKenna,Jed/SpiritualEnlightenment-DamnestThing.pdf

discovered this after i'd already gotten over my own ego, so can't vouch for it myself
but he sounds legit

also, my diary desu. but i doubt you'll find it useful

You can't destroy your ego, you always assume an ego when you act, and acting is also thinking. Neither you can diminish your ego, by that I mean the function of your ego as the percipitation of you as such. You are trying to train your mind to live frugally and be happy or whatever you want, enjoy nirvana, but it won't change the fact that its not an act of letting your ego go but ardent constraining and forced habit through semantic feel good contriving.

to exist means to stand out from a background, against what background does your mind stand out against?

the answer is more mind, but that mind cannot think "my". The "me" thinks "my", the me sits like a drop in the ocean of mind

when it surrenders there is only the infinite stillness and eternal silence of the...

>to exist means to stand out from a background

No it doesn't

>against what background does your mind stand out against?
>against ... against?
Tragic

>TEAIO
>The Billionaires Bible

Lol there are 3 types of egos

Ego death in shamanism is the one thats induced via psychedelics.

>induced via psychedelics.
Not induced just by psychedelics, but they are the quickest and most consistent way to get there.

What is proof consciousness exist? stfu nerd

Yes, I agree absolutely.
Honestly of the 3 this is the spiritual ego.
This is why Paul says he dies everday.
He acted like a monk.( parallels buddhism)

>What is proof consciousness exist?
Good question. Those should be answered before you try and figure out how they work.

Except the only way to answer it is through consciousness. Its a fools errand and in the end must be taken as self evident if you have any shred of intellectual honesty

>I do not understand how the universe was created or why it exists
>therefore I shouldn't try to understand any of the things in it
this is your brain on atheism folks

>this is your brain on atheism folks
But I'm not an atheist user.
>>I do not understand how the universe was created or why it exists
>>therefore I shouldn't try to understand any of the things in it
A conclusion is always wrong if we don't fully understand the premises. Our faith in God is the only thing we can definitely understand. Do you claim to know more than God?

classist absolutely, but far from racist

> from a spiritual perspective
I feel that purposefully going after "spiritual" ideas is well intentioned but ultimately not as effective in terms of words read / time unit.
There are many secular that talk about destroying or subduing the ego in a manner that is more direct and understandable for western readers. I'll suggest Robert Anton Wilson. (am I going to get lynched for this? don't come to Veeky Forums often)

Hindus literally believe that we are all part of the same soul. If you don’t, you have to think of yourself as an individual, because in all meaningful senses you are.

Ego death from lsd sucks don't do it

Don't listen to this user it's great.

Got anything interesting to share?

For me I just felt even more lost in the world than before. The trip was fuckin awesome tho

I briefly went through an ego death.

Don't do it. You'll make the other parts of your mind very sad. You'll feel that saddness echoeing inside your head. It's a huge burden to the other parts of your mind which loved you.

>For me I just felt even more lost in the world than before.
This is a great feeling though. I see it as a rediscovering of novelty that you weren't able to see before. A very positive and cathartic experience.

For future trips, I suggest you try your best not to fight the experience. The transition from just tripping to an ego death event can be easy or hard. It's best to give in right away and let the chemical express itself fully without a struggle.