{"id":2265,"date":"2026-05-05T14:24:15","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T14:24:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/zijiart.com\/?p=2265"},"modified":"2026-05-05T14:24:15","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T14:24:15","slug":"non-ego","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zijiart.com\/?p=2265","title":{"rendered":"non ego"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The nonexistence of a solid, ongoing self is known as \u201cegolessness.\u201d To return to the grain-of-sand analogy, if we don\u2019t overcrowd or obstruct anything with a big sense of \u201cme,\u201d we enjoy a sense of spaciousness. There\u2019s a feeling of tremendous room, a feeling of infinite possibilities. The less ego one has, the more one can relax and appreciate the world and other beings. It\u2019s like what the singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen said after many years of Zen meditation. After all that practice, he got bored to death with all his ego dramas and they started to fall away. Then he found that \u201cthe less there was of me, the happier I got.\u201d<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n
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Excerpted from:Another Kind of Freedom <\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Egolessness The nonexistence of a solid, ongoing self is known as \u201cegolessness.\u201d To return to the grain-of-sand analogy, if we don\u2019t overcrowd or obstruct anything with a big sense of \u201cme,\u201d we enjoy a sense of spaciousness. There\u2019s a feeling of tremendous room, a feeling of infinite possibilities. The less ego one has, the more one can relax and appreciate the world and other beings. It\u2019s like what the singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen said after many years of Zen meditation. After all that practice, he got bored to death with all his ego dramas and they started to fall away. Then he found that \u201cthe less there was of me, the happier I got.\u201d Excerpted from:Another Kind of Freedom By Pema Ch\u00f6dr\u00f6n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2265","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-yoga"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zijiart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2265","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zijiart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zijiart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zijiart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zijiart.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2265"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/zijiart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2265\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2269,"href":"https:\/\/zijiart.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2265\/revisions\/2269"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zijiart.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2265"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zijiart.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2265"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zijiart.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2265"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}