• The “Ego” refers to the “little self”.
• The “Self”  refers to the “Higher Self” or “Real Self”.
• So don’t confuse these two words.

Nature Of The Self

• The Self has All.
• It needs nothing
• It has no desires.
• It is effortless.

Nature Of The Ego

• The Ego lacks All.
• It needs fulfillment
• It needs approval.
• It takes efforts.

Good Desires

• The desire to let go of Ego, instead of, the desire to “get out of misery”
• The desire to know the Self
• The desire to find joy internally

Mechanism Of Ego, Lack, Desire

• We don’t know the Self, so we assume we are the Ego
• The Ego uses the mind to artificially create a lack (e.g. I need this person. I need this thing. I need approval from this person. Etc.)
• The mind start thinking: I have a desire to relieve this lack (e.g. If I fulfill my desire, I will be happy.)
• The mind figures out and start doing everything to undo the lack (e.g. I will have to do this, to do that, etc., to get my desire fulfilled.)
• After the lack is undone, the Ego feel happy (e.g. I get this thing. I get approval from this person. I will be happy.)
• Then, the Ego temporary calm down, and return back to its source

Say It Another Way…

• The Ego creates Thought of Lack
• Thought of Lack raise up Desire to Fulfill
• Desire to Fulfill leads to Action to Get it
• After Got it, Desire is fulfilled, Thought of Lack is relieved, Ego returns back to the Self
• Then, we call it Happiness

5 Thing Shorten Lifespan

1. Not making oneself happy
2. Over-pleasure, without caring about health
3. Over-eating
4. Over-exhausting the body (especially, during the night)
5. Over-having sexual intercourse

Characteristic Of Lazy Person

1. Don’t do the task in hand
2. Feel bored with the task in hand
3. Procrastinate often

Results Of Lazy Person

• Will not gain much knowledge
• No skill to pursue career or profession
• No money, no friends
• No friends, no pleasure
• No pleasure, no giving
• No giving, no realization

I Have One…

• I have one refuge, it is pure Dharma.
• I have one weapon, it is persistence.
• I have one jewel, it is patience.
• I have one power, it is well-controlled mind.
• I have one tool, it is consciousness.
• I have one love, it is good deed.
• I have one capital, it is giving-kindness.
• I have one enjoyment, it is pure Dharma.
• I have one medicine, it is trusted word.
• I have one giving up, it is giving (or giving up greed).

5 Powers From Dharma

• Have Belief In What Should Believe
• Have Patience
• Have Consciousness
• Have Concentration
• Have Intelligence

• Sense = INTRIYA
• INTRIYA is like the river feed the sea (never full)
• INTRIYA feeds the mind.
• INTRIYA is also the manifestation of the mind.
• Mind is the 6th sense.

Pairs Of The Body

• Nose and Anus
• Tongue and Genital
• Eyes and Feet
• Skin and Hands
• Speech and Ears

Exit and Entry Of The Body

• Eyes and ears are entry.
• Genital and anus are exit.

Ways To Control INTRIYA

• Close the eyes (= Shut down 1/5 of the world)
• Shut the ears (= Shut down 1/5 of the world)
• Control the tongue (eat and speak) (= Shut down 1/5 of the world)
• Give up luxurious foods
• Give up all articles of sensual enjoyment
• DAMA = Restraint (= Not allow the mind to follow after it)
• PRATYAHARA = Abstention (= Avoid it, Not do it)
• VAIRAGYA = Disppassion
• TYAGA = Renuncation
• VIVEKA = Discrimination

• Renunciation = TYAGA
• Shun earthly objects as fire, poison, offal
• Renounce (desire, attachment, cravings, egoism, passion, VASANA, lust, greed, anger, I-ness, mine-ness)

Nature Of Physical Body

• Body knows nothing.
• Body is inert ^{[no action, no motion]}.
• Body is in gross form. Mind is in subtle form.
• Body is outward expression of the mind.
• Body reacts upon the mind. Mind acts upon the body.
• Body also influences the mind back.
• Body follows the mind, imitates the change of the mind.
• Body is shadow of the mind.
• Body release out energy to gain different experience from objects through the five senses.
• Body is just matter. We are not the body.

Ways To Get Perfect Body

• The Difficult Way: Let go of all past concepts of imperfection of body.
• The Easier Way: Put a picture of perfect body in the mind. Put this thought with stronger power than the sum total of past pictures of imperfect body.

Nature Of Mind

• Mind is in subtle form. Body is in gross form.
• Mind sits in the heart
• Mind is in touch with other minds of other people
• There are two minds: Cosmic mind (act like, power house), and Individual mind (act like, light bulb)
• Mind always attach itself to objects
• Mind externalizes
• Mind wanders restlessly
• Mind fluctuate always depending on conditions
• Mind excites
• Mind agitates
• Mind craves for sensual objects
• Mind thinks randomly
• Mind separates God from us
• Mind don’t need sleeping (the brain needs sleeping)
• Mind can do only one thing in one time.
• Mind have no function in our deep sleep, or deep meditation.
• Mind influences the physical body. Body also influences the mind back.
• Mind does action in the astral body.
• Mind is only creative. What holds in mind, we will create.
• Mind is just instrument. We are not the mind.
• Mind is just

Mechanism Of Mind

How To Wean The Mind

• Sit in a quiet room
• Think of miseries of earthly life (failure, loss, care, worry, anxiety, hunger, thirst, tribulation, sins, temptation, fears, disappointment, passion, fighting, vanity, disease, hostility, dead, old age, sorrow, grief, mosquito bite, scorpion sting, etc.)
• Practice this daily.

And more…

• Change of thought => Change of mental body => Change of physical body
• Pure Mind => Healthy Body
• What Holds In Mind = What Produces In Body
• Sleep = No Pain
• No Mind Connected = No Pain
• Thought Of ATMAN = Full Of Bliss
• Thought Of Pain = Pain In Body
• Thought Of Trouble = Suffering In Body
• Pain only exist in the mind.
• Finite-Objects Never Satisfy Infinite-Self.
• Changing-Objects Never Satisfy Changeless-Self.
• Perishable-Objects Never Satisfy Deathless-Self.
• Enjoyment Of Object Once => Want More =>Long Indulgence => Affection => Delusion => Vain Attachment => Suffering
• Hope + Anticipation => Fatten the Mind

Nature Of Pleasure

• Pleasure is changing
• Pleasure is temporary
• Pleasure is illusive
• Pleasure is unreal
• Pleasure is dissatisfied
• Pleasure is fleeting

And more…

• Pleasure leads to more desires, cravings, attachment, aversions, memories, …

• Change of thought => Change of mental body => Change of physical body.
• Pleasure leads to more desires, cravings, attachment, aversions, memories, …
• Sensual objects lead to pains, impulses, …
• Attachments lead to miseries, disappointments, …
• Aversions leads to sufferings

• Identify with body.
• Identify with wife, husband, children, etc.
• Identify with objects likes: car, house, computer, clothes, tables, job, money, etc.
• Identify with sense-objects like: pleasure, sadness, disappointment, fear, doubt, jealousy, etc.

Identification With Body

• is the root of evil
• leads to attachment to body
• leads to mine-ness (my wife, my kid, my car, my …)

Identification With People/Objects

• leads to Pains
• leads to Miseries
• leads to Bondage

Example

• Example 1: Horse is dead. (We have no pain feeling about the event.)
• Example 2: My horse is dead. (We have a pain feeling about the event.)
• Without “My”, we have no pain feeling.
• With “My”, we have pain feeling.