ego
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June 22nd, 2024
- what was "ego" in buddhist context?
- wait, what is the history in English? huh, turns out it's NOT strictly Freud—the use of the Latin word pre-dated Freud
- by 1707, in metaphysics, "the self; that which feels, acts, or thinks," from Latin __ego "I" (cognate with Old English ic; see I); its use is implied in egoity__.
- > They that have pleaded against Propriety, and would have all things common in this World, have forgotten that there is a Propriety, in our present Egoity, and Natural Constitution, which rendereth some accidental Propriety necessary to us (etc.) ["The Practical Works of the Late Reverend and Pious Mr. Richard Baxter," London, 1707]
- Psychoanalytic (Freudian) sense is from 1894; sense of "conceit" is 1891. __Ego-trip first recorded 1969, from trip (n.). Related: egoical__.
- > In the book of Egoism it is written, Possession without obligation to the object possessed approaches felicity. [George Meredith, "The Egoist," 1879]
- from r/Buddhism
- "a not-particularly-good translation of words like ahamkara in sanskrit"
- "I-making" according to wikipedia
- aka ahankara
- (which goes back to hinduism)
February 20th, 2023
quote about wondrously workable neuroses: › Spacious Passion: Chapter 3 – Spontaneity › > "The Lama is reflective because the Lama knows the non-…
- maybe in some sense while you're in an egoic strategy, you're also sort of in a meta-level sense neurotic, because you can resolve your own PCT Error/gaps but you can't track collective error so you're constantly creating problems for others??
- hmm nah it doesn't really map
- they feel super related tho