Comments on: Confusion on Easter Sunday http://socialmode.com/2009/04/12/confusion-on-easter-sunday/ Integrated Synthesis of Media, Society and Behavior Fri, 06 Jan 2012 18:54:37 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: un1crom http://socialmode.com/2009/04/12/confusion-on-easter-sunday/#comment-1163 Sun, 12 Apr 2009 21:36:23 +0000 http://socialmode.com/?p=1096#comment-1163 I think you can arrive at your conclusions without Tolle. No need for this concept of ego. We are what we do. What we do is conditioned and maintained by our genes (and epigenetically) and environment (physical, cultural).

I’m not sure everyone would agree with you that Obama and Woods “know who they are” or “have no need to be anyone or anything else”. Those are very subjective statements.

I do agree with you, in some ways, that generally our culture values hording stuff and achieving status without understanding why we value those things. In other words, those goals have become disconnected from what they can actually do for us.

]]> By: Stephanie http://socialmode.com/2009/04/12/confusion-on-easter-sunday/#comment-1161 Sun, 12 Apr 2009 17:49:26 +0000 http://socialmode.com/?p=1096#comment-1161 I believe all of these concerns are symptoms of one basic problem, at least in the U.S. culture in which I grew up. Too many people believe they are of no value unless they have a lot of stuff — they have no real identity beyond their work, their wealth, or their role (whether it be parent, child, doctor, engineer, spiritual person, intellectual, etc.). But each of us is, in reality, much, much more than what we do or what we have. Eckhardt Tolle distinguishes the “ego” — the self of the material world — from the true self, the center that exists within each of us, but which has been buried in various concepts. Enlightenment, according to Eckhardt, is becoming aware of the true self. The ego is divisive; the self is inclusive. At some level, we sense it when a person is truly genuine and we are mesmerized. Preisdent Obama, Tiger Woods and most of our heroes know who they are and have no need to be anyone or anything else, and they are recognized as special without necessarily understanding why. The good news is, all of us are capable of this discovery and the peace that comes with knowing who we are and accepting who we are. I recommend that everyone read The Power of Now and A New Earth; it can change your life overnight.

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