egoism

One BIG part of spirituality is loosing your ego. Before you are able to progress on your path of enlightenlightenment, you must loose your ego. Most people consider the ego like a friend and are scared to drop it, but in truth it will only make you miserable. One last thing about ego, see there are certain people you can look at and say "wow that person has a big ego" I geuss if someone where to be with me for over week yeah, they would proebly say that (I love giving myself complements!) But there is another kind of ego all together. This is called subtle ego. Have you ever spoken to someone who was like "oh no you have it. I am fine" like when you are asking if they want another cookie and you know they really do but they are refusing. Or they act really shy. This is called subtle ego. The problem with this sort of ego is that it accepted, more then accepted encouraged! By socioty. You might refer to a person as if the are such a humble person. Actully this type of ego is 10000 times worse then direct ego.
Ok so that is my teaching segment, I learned all that when I took my Life Bliss Program teachers training in India over last winter, that is part of the content for Swamiji's first level meditation class. Now as this blog is about MY expirences how have I expirenced ego. I have to say a lot of thing that have happened to my over the past two years could (I suppose they did a little bit) led me to be very egoistic. I am constently getting complements for one thing about how sweet I am doing spirituality at such a young age, about how pretty I look, how talented I am, how good I am in school. And so fourth. yes it has effected me a little bit, but I swear with I out Swamiji's teaching and with just all of that I would be a ruin right now. Ok so I don't think I am rid of my ego, but I have progressed to a point where I am aware of being egoistic when I am. So that is todays spiritual teaching!!! I have a football game tonight, so thats about all, please comment my dear readers I need to know what I writing is OK, and what the picture has to do with this subject... I don't really know. Chasing the bad ego away???? Interpurate for yourself please.