Theos-Talk Archives (January 1998 Message tt00181)

Dear Keith:

No question that each incarnation is "ego" centered.  But how did it get to
be that way ?  There seem to be enough unusual things in any life time --
accidents, problems, ... -- which ought to have some cause to explain their
occurrence.  Why do we have (or not have) certain talents -- as a for
instance ?

I keep on asking Who and What am I ?  To think, to Feel, to Be.  What is
that?  Here I am in a body, and yet I know that the body is only a tool, as
are the feelings the urges, the mind ... I use and perceive through all
these either simultaneously or separately.  So somewhere I am the
Perceiver, the Controller, the Chooser, the Willer -- and so on.

Now if I am offered as an example the idea of Egoic immortality, I begin to
see that possibly the "ego" of this life-time with its memories and quirks
is only a kind of construct.  It is not the real me.  it is the active
agent of Me, the Real Self.  It is given the body and its environment to
live in.  It is a kind of image or reflection.  It is very real to me as I
live, feel and think now.  But in essence it is not the Real ME.

I have found the ideas of Theosophy (particularly as expressed in HPB's THE
KEY TO THEOSOPHY and Mr. Judges's THE OCEAN OF THEOSOPHY) to bring together
the scattered ideas that place a meaning. purpose, design to my being here,
and involved in my present.

I like the idea that the 'ego' of this life time is related to past 'egos'
and strung on the thread of immortality that extends to it from the Real,
Permanent Ego.  It is like Father/son relationships.  The Ego (real) is an
immortal which is tutoring the 'ego; and trying to get it to improve its
life, trying to get it to learn.  There is far more to this than "schools
and texts," and it involves the life-time work of everyone -- as I think.

maybe these are ideas to also chew on.			Dallas


		Dallas TenBroeck

dalval@nwc.net                        (818) 222-8024
                   23145 Park Contessa,
            Calabasas, Ca., 91302, USA.

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> From: "Keith Price" <email.msn.com>
> Subject: Re: Brenda on Ego
> Date: Saturday, January 17, 1998 9:17 AM
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: "Brenda S Tucker" <brenda@theosophy.com>
> Date: Sunday, January 11, 1998 9:44 PM
> Subject: Re:Fractals
>
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> >
> >>Yes, but she also taught that "permanent" and "eternal" only refers
> >>to this manvantara. Thus the Ego is long-lasting, but not truly
eternal.
> >>This is also the Buddhist view.
> >			SNIP		<<