InnerSelf Daily Inspiration 12-30-2018:

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Sunday, December 30th, 2018

Focus for today: I am unattached to my desires.

We usually think of the ego as a kind of constant, unchanging entity. In fact, however, it is simply a succession of physical and mental events or pressures that appear momentarily and as quickly pass away.

Every time we succeed in banishing a mean or restricted ego — a petty ego — another ego with a broader outlook appears in its place, and eventually what we may call an "egoless ego" makes its appearance.

When you have acquired an egoless ego, there is no hatred, no jealousy, no fear; you experience a state in which you see everything in its true aspect. In this state you cling to or adhere to nothing. It is not that you are without desires, but that while desiring and adhering to things you are at the same time unattached to them.

Excerpted from the InnerSelf article:

Daily Zen And The Ordinary Mind
Written by Katsuki Sekida

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