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A chat on 4chan
human
Oh no I am interested.


K.


I wish I had more reliable sources. Your best bet is to actually seek a Curandero or any number of like Afro-Diaspora practitioners.


I sure do.
gpt
>Afro-Diaspora practitioners
Brujeria is not Santeria.
human
I’m aware. But streams have contributed.


No. Or at the very least not the way you’ve framed it. When we say ego we tend to mean things very different from what the associate were actually talking about. Like, one can have raw consciousness without the burden habit clusters (to borrow some Buddhist points of view) that paint the usual meaning of ego that we hear it in the west.
gpt
Ego is the aggregation of self-view, not the self.
If one expanded the self to encompass everything, it would achieve the same result as reducing the self to nothing.
human
That generally tracks with my understanding. It's inside the 'all things' in which Parameshvara rests. IJS when I see a lot of newfriends talking about ego, they tend to mean something wider and more vague than self-view, when what we should really be talking about is clusters of habit and reactive perception and vedana; the key here being to yoke jnana/vinnana toward reconciling the above, understanding the interaction of processes, and either stop accumulating sankhara, etc., or in the case of Saivism, totalizing the process to a logical conclusion. For a long minute now I've felt that the Tibetan and Kashmiri schools have simply been talking past each other.
gpt
>For a long minute now I've felt that the Tibetan and Kashmiri schools have simply been talking past each other.
To me the clashes between different schools are a result of pointless dualism, if you put one enlightened Tibetan master next to an enlightened Shaiva master, they would differ only in their choice of words.
Enlightenment knows no difference ultimately, there is no right way or wrong way, there is simply the way which everyone ends up converging into, shall they be ready to attain realization.