Belief in an Ego is a Bondage
linking to Death!
At Savatthi the Blessed Buddha once explained:
Bhikkhus, the uninstructed ordinary person regards his form as self,
or self
as possessing a form, or form as inside self, or self as inside a
frame of form...
This, bhikkhus, is called an uninstructed
ordinary person, who is bound by
bondage to form, who is bound
by inner and outer bondage, who neither
sees the near shore, nor
the far shore, who grows old in bondage, who dies
in bondage,
who goes from this world to the next other world in bondage...
Such one regards feeling, perception, mental construction &
consciousness
as a self or self as having feeling, perception,
construction & consciousness,
or feeling, perception,
construction & consciousness as being inside the self,
or a self
as if hidden inside feeling, perception, construction &
consciousness!
Such one, Bhikkhus, is called an uninstructed
ordinary person, who is bound by
bondage, clinging, & inner
chains to feelings, perceptions, mental constructions,
and
consciousness... Such one, Bhikkhus, bound by both inner & outer
bondage,
who neither sees this near shore, nor the far shore,
who grows old in bondage,
who dies in bondage, will pass on in
bondage to the next world, still in bondage!
When Bound by an Ego concept one is linked
to a future of repeated Death!
On
Selflessness, Soullessness and No-Self
Anti-Egoism:
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Pride.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Conceit_I_Am.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/I-dentification.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/Prison_of_Pride.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Anti-EGO-Tool.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Anatta_No_Self.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/No_Agent_is_Inside.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Solo_Self-Deception.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/II/Mistaken_Reference.htm
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/drops/IV/Selfless_and_Harmless.htm
Source:
The Grouped Sayings by the Buddha. Samyutta Nikāya
22:117 III 165
http://store.pariyatti.org/Connected-Discourses-of-the-Buddha_p_1379.html
https://What-Buddha-Said.net/library/ati_website/html/tipitaka/sn/index.html
