The Ego: from Birth to Rebirth (The Notebooks of Paul Brunton V006) (Volume 6)

I had a book on my shelf for 5 years "Standing in Your Own Way: Talks on the Nature of Ego" by Anthony Damaini. I finally got around to reading it and it was very deep and one of the few books to totally focus on the ego. How do we transcend the ego unless we know what it is? Paul Brunton is heavily quoted in Anthony's book as Anthony was a student of Pauls. Once I started reading Paul I know I had found a non-dual heavy hitter the likes of Ramana , Nisargadatta and Jean Klein. Actually Paul studied under Ramana. This particular book is one in a series of "notebooks" produced by Paul. Here are few couple of quotes:"The danger of most pseudo-spiritual paths is that they stimulate the ego, whereas the authentic path will suffocate it.""...the body is only a part of you, that part which is the object receiving your attention.""The ego must live in the world, must satisfy its needs out of its environment. It is therefore entitled to its point of view. The mistake lies in tyrannically making that the only point of view."Paul is accredited as bringing the Eastern philosophy to the West.The notebook collection is an astounding wealth of wisdom on a variety of topics relating to spiritual development from Ego to the Body to Meditation. As of this review I was able to find the entire notebook collection online.

For those who love meditation, this note is more than a good starter because those who love to delve deeply will have more suggestions and observations to work with. There are surprises for me as I found out many notes have been what I observed many years ago by myself -- it just a confirmation that human beings are essentially the same stuff. So, what the enlightened discovered is waiting for us to discover for ourselves. Enjoy reading it at your pace.

Great Read!!!!

A must for REAL questers (meaning, tired of fooling around).