Gautama Buddha Quotes About Ego

• In a controversy the instant we feel anger we have already ceased striving for the truth, and have begun striving for ourselves. This is a helpful pointer for our everyday presence-practice. Can you catch yourself angrily defending your point of view or attacking the other person's? There's the ego.

  Gautama Buddha

  Views, Practice, Ego

• A virtuous man or woman who is determined to develop the Supreme Enlightened Mind, should thus develop it: I have to lead all living beings to put a stop to (reincarnation) and escape (suffering), and when they have been so led, not one of them in fact stops (reincarnating) or escapes suffering. Why? Because, if a Bodhisattva believes in the notion of an ego, a personality, or a living being, he is not a true Bodhisattva.

  Gautama Buddha

  Buddhist, Believe, Men

• Happy are those who have overcome their egos; happy are those who have attained peace; happy are those who have found the Truth.

  Gautama Buddha

  Ego, Overcoming, Found

• Wear your ego like a loose fitting garment.

  Gautama Buddha

  Ego, Fitting, Garments

• First of all there will appear to you, swifter than lightning, the luminous splendor of the colorless light of Emptiness, and that will surround you on all sides. ...Try to submerge yourself in that light, giving up all belief in a separate self, all attachment to your illusory ego.

  Gautama Buddha

  Giving Up, Book, Light

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