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An interesting example is the word "bully". We all know what it means nowadays, but it used to mean a blustering daredevil, and before that it meant a good fellow (as in "Bully for you") and originally it meant sweetheart. So let's not get too hung up on the original definition of ego. Common usage means that more modern variations are quite acceptable. Peace |
''What does spirituality mean to you?''
The immaterial. :smile: |
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Spiritual people tend to redefine the ego as the bad guy then declare they don't have one of those. The only problem is that they are unaware that the discussion of the ego is psychoanalysis not Spirituality, and that all they've done is 'levelled up' their egoism. That's Spirituality, self-awareness, higher consciousness? And while those Spiritual people are talking about their pseudo-psychoanalysis there's a perfectly good Sanskrit word that not only provided the basis for the psychology but also 'dovetails' into so many other ancient philosophies/religions and their understandings - including understanding reality itself. It's not wrong, it's ignorance and a few other things that Spirituality isn't supposed to be. It's all a major problem because Spirituality becomes as much of a status symbol as a mansion, and Spiritual knowledge is as much wealth as money in the bank. People are creating delusions. If people are creating their own realities by deliberately redefining words and therefore understandings and realities, what happened to integrity? |
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Redefining something is usually done to embrace a better appraisal i.e. understanding - not to delude/dupe oneself! Ancient scriptures talk of minimising the ego to enable our soul/spirit to shine through. I'm sure many spiritually focused people here understand that our ego is simply our worldly ID i.e. incorporating all that goes with that (not all negative!) |
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Common usage of the word 'ego' simply means that Spiritual people aren't as Spiritual as they'd like to think they are. Their Spirituality is an illusion. |
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'Invented' as in illusory. The ego is seen as the false self, i.e. our real self being beyond ego....easily experienced/verified in meditation. Spiritually focused people are aware that they are mind, body and spirit i.e. it does not denote the level of spirituality achieved. Spirituality is very far from being illusory and, if you dispute this, why are you on this forum? |
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For the most part, any thread on the ego is about reducing/killing the ego - ego is often portrayed as the 'bad guy' and that's superstitious nonsense, not Spirituality. Egoism is the issue and the barrier to 'higher understandings' not Spirituality, and so-called ego-death is egoism. Redefinition only leads to illusion/delusion. Ancient scriptures can't talk about minimising the ego because ego is a Latin word, and the ancient scripts - mostly in Sanskrit and similar languages - can be at least two thousand years older than Latin. Redefinition only changes the meaning to something more palatable, and often that only causes entropy. |
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Why are you writing the word 'Spirituality' with an upper-case 'S'? Or being critical about others for not being as spiritual as they believe themselves to be? |
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