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Life Of The Mother Amma Essay

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Exercise difficult human relationships for the development of tolerance, compassion and awareness of the ego Awareness of the functioning of our ego can best be developed by being in contact and even having a relationship with a person whose presence feels the most intolerable to us. Naturally, this is not an easy task, but it offers the best way to learn to become aware of the ways our ego works. The life of the Mother Amma, an Indian spiritual teacher, is a good example. Born in Southern India, her family despised her because she had darker skin than her other siblings. Furthermore, her mother didn’t protect her from the aggression of her older brother, because she was the “black lamb” of the family. Once she was even at a brink of being killed by her brother. Yet even under …show more content…

He said that when somebody does something to us that really irritates or hurts us, then recognize that it is the point where our ego is the strongest. We then should only momentarily focus our attention on this person and instead stay in the core of this anger or hate. We may then notice that the flame of the hate won’t last long. The flame of hate doesn’t burn long if it doesn’t have a source. There is a story about George Gurdjieff (Ouspensky 2003) from the time when he ran a spiritual school in France. A man whom the students found completely intolerable came to the school. After some time, this fellow decided to leave the school and went to Paris. Gurdjieff then travelled to Paris to meet the man and offered him money if he would return. The man accepted the deal and came back to the school. Upon hearing this, the other students were furious. Gurdjieff laughingly explained to them that this intolerable man was needed in order for them to learn to recognise how their ego

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