The mind can be seen as the air filling the open sky.
Our mind is the air inside a hot air balloon (open at the bottom - so joined but separate)
The ego then is the flame at the bottom of the hot air balloon that stirs the mind up into the balloon.
Overly inflated, hot headed, big head, full of hot air... all make sense in this analogy.
Bodhidharma, the startling awakening
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*"If you want to abandon the unreal and turn to the real, sit steadily and
gaze at a wall. Self and other, ordinary people and enlightened ones, are
one an...
4 years ago
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I really like this analogy about the ego: hot air complicating things.
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