Taking Ego Onto the Path

Have you heard that to develop spiritually you must "transcend the ego"?  

There's a lot of truth to this, as the claustrophobic sense of a cut-off "self" is the cause of many of our problems, both personally and socially.

But when we attempt to bypass our sense of self prematurely, it causes more harm than good.

Traditional wisdom schools have built-in ways of cultivating a healthy sense of self, so that as we surrender less-functional ideas about Who we are, we are not left adrift, or less stable than before.

This brief clip from our most recent Compassion Alchemy meditation retreat talks about this type of training. I hope you enjoy it, and feel free to sign up for our next retreat, coming up on November 12th!