Discussion

lost/other random discussion
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How shallow is your ego?
How much can you achieve, without having continual reinforcement for your ego?


I fear for myself, very little.

Or perhaps, my ego is weighing me down.
The addiction to jogging my ego's muscles prevents me from focus, and the more i jog those muscles, the more they desire it, and the more distracted I become.

Does happiness come into this picture?

What does this have to do with teaching?
or with providing apprenticeships?

How can one be a good teacher without involving their ego?

How can one maintain a healthy ego without involving it in their careers or other places in their lives where it doesn't belong?

Is this one of the main functions of religion?

Is it possible to keep your ego out of your sex life?

Laughing sex. Laughing teachers.

I learned this week that laughing is not a universal cure.
Mourning and laughing are by no means opposites,
Nonetheless, they occupy and flourish for different purposes.
Laughing ghosts,
mourning humans.

What is the time period needed to feel loss?
And the time period needed to register it?


At what point do we feel loss?

And empathy, what of feeling someone else's loss?

and, when its too much, to know, complex maybe-- how does the empathy intuition work ?

For myself-- i have definitely acquired a block of sorts---
possible to overload on empathy from afar---- via books/ news etc.
But heavy, present empathy-- my circuits are a bit overly defensive.