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TLDR: What more to read about ego diminishing?
I found this forum after googling for opinions on Eckhart Tolle. I'm really glad of learning different views from this topic:
forum.culteducation.com/read.php?6,54633,page=1
After finishing that topic, I read this one as well:
forum.culteducation.com/read.php?12,7166,page=1
And I still haven't found an answer to what I'm looking for. On the 11th page The Anticult says "... Eckhart Tolle's alleged idea of Egolessness, which is more of a Buddhist idea..." but that's not specific enough. Which kind of Buddhism exactly and which texts should I read?
I was reading the Ramana Maharshi's Wikipedia page, then the Self-enquiry page, then the Self-realization page, on which it says " True happiness is the manifested Self. It only seems like a result because it is not felt or known permanently before the ego is removed." which is what I want to read more about, but everything around that quote is not about "ego removal" but about happiness instead. So that was a dead end.
I want to explain a bit about myself and how I got here.
I was raised as an orthodox Christian. I read the Bible and figured that's not what I can believe in. I've read the Wikipedia pages of the other main religions and nothing caught my eye so I left it at that, without paying any more interest in the spiritual field for several years. Later I was interested in personal development and read a lot of books, most of which I found useful. On one torrent site one of the most seeded books was The Power of Now so I downloaded it thinking it's similar to the others. I was pleasantly surprised and I enjoyed what I've learned from it so much that I downloaded everything from Tolle. I recently had the time to listen to it all. I liked all of it maybe because it was new to me. After reading the above mentioned topics I agree with the strong argument that he is a fraud because all he wants to get from his teaching is money and that corrupts his intentions. I understand that his ideas are all not his and just rephrased other teachings. This is why I'm posting this topic. I am interested in reading from other sources about the same and I need your help to guide me. I've read a bit from Advaita Vedanta's Upanishads and I see that it's about nondualism, which is interesting but I am more into other stuff Tolle said, namely the diminishing of the ego and the ways to do it.
I'm not interested in reading more about being in the present moment or distinguishing yourself from your thoughts.
Thanks for reading such a long post and I'll be grateful if you answer my request.
TLDR: What more to read about ego diminishing?
I found this forum after googling for opinions on Eckhart Tolle. I'm really glad of learning different views from this topic:
forum.culteducation.com/read.php?6,54633,page=1
After finishing that topic, I read this one as well:
forum.culteducation.com/read.php?12,7166,page=1
And I still haven't found an answer to what I'm looking for. On the 11th page The Anticult says "... Eckhart Tolle's alleged idea of Egolessness, which is more of a Buddhist idea..." but that's not specific enough. Which kind of Buddhism exactly and which texts should I read?
I was reading the Ramana Maharshi's Wikipedia page, then the Self-enquiry page, then the Self-realization page, on which it says " True happiness is the manifested Self. It only seems like a result because it is not felt or known permanently before the ego is removed." which is what I want to read more about, but everything around that quote is not about "ego removal" but about happiness instead. So that was a dead end.
I want to explain a bit about myself and how I got here.
I was raised as an orthodox Christian. I read the Bible and figured that's not what I can believe in. I've read the Wikipedia pages of the other main religions and nothing caught my eye so I left it at that, without paying any more interest in the spiritual field for several years. Later I was interested in personal development and read a lot of books, most of which I found useful. On one torrent site one of the most seeded books was The Power of Now so I downloaded it thinking it's similar to the others. I was pleasantly surprised and I enjoyed what I've learned from it so much that I downloaded everything from Tolle. I recently had the time to listen to it all. I liked all of it maybe because it was new to me. After reading the above mentioned topics I agree with the strong argument that he is a fraud because all he wants to get from his teaching is money and that corrupts his intentions. I understand that his ideas are all not his and just rephrased other teachings. This is why I'm posting this topic. I am interested in reading from other sources about the same and I need your help to guide me. I've read a bit from Advaita Vedanta's Upanishads and I see that it's about nondualism, which is interesting but I am more into other stuff Tolle said, namely the diminishing of the ego and the ways to do it.
I'm not interested in reading more about being in the present moment or distinguishing yourself from your thoughts.
Thanks for reading such a long post and I'll be grateful if you answer my request.