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concept:ego-desire-for-separatenessEgo / desire for separateness
The maker's impulse to draw attention to self, which blocks the creation of not-separateness and living structure.
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Claims (2)
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- If we allow ourselves the luxury of paying attention to our own ideas, we shall certainly fail.aboutThe danger of the maker's ego interfering with the unfolding process.
- Ego removal as a necessary condition for not-separate creation.
Chapters (1)
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- Chapter 11: The Face Of GodintroducesThis chapter argues that the quality without a name is literally God appearing, and that a necessary state of mind for making living things is to offer them as a gift to God.
Related by similarity (8)
cosine ≥ 0.65 · no typed edgeEntities in the same semantic neighborhood but without a typed relation to this one — candidates for new edges or unrecognized duplicates.
- A common essential in mystical teachings: the need to lose concern with one's own ego to reach the ground and see wholeness.
- Affective forces that bind intelligence to suffering; all living intelligence is afflicted by them.
- Claim that connectedness to surroundings is the culminating property; without it, beautiful centers shout 'look at me' rather than healing
- Subjective corollary of the boundary unmeasurability claim.
- 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 property that a living whole is at one with the world, not separate from it; the center melts into its surroundings, the boundary is fragmented or incomplete, and there is a profound connection rather than isolation—perhaps the most important property of all
- Berridge and Robinson's finding that dopamine mediates wanting but not liking; accommodated as two evaluation types
- The necessity of sincere desire for not-separateness on the part of the maker.