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concept:abandonment-of-egoabandonment of ego
A common essential in mystical teachings: the need to lose concern with one's own ego to reach the ground and see wholeness.
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- This chapter of 'The Luminous Ground' examines historical art to find clues for a cosmology that fuses self and matter, emphasizing that profound living structure consistently arises in a mystical-religious context and that we need a new vision of relatedness for our time.
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- The maker's impulse to draw attention to self, which blocks the creation of not-separateness and living structure.
- The state of mind required to produce genuine roughness and life; the product of no will, where the maker is deeply relaxed and free, doing only what is essential without contrived desire to be interesting
- The mode of making in which personal search for the true self and objective construction of living structure coincide.
- Ego removal as a necessary condition for not-separate creation.
- The state in which one sees the structure perfectly and makes the perfect structure-preserving response; paradoxically reached through the deeply personal act of pleasing oneself.
- Concise framing of action-perception cycle whereby agents minimize surprise through perception and action.
- Process of reifying one's identity as an independent self; meditation practices aim to decrease selfing.
- The personal experience of being a self, which is left out of the mechanistic world-picture but is central to the new wholeness-based view.