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As for the ego question, of course Pride (in the sense of Conceit) arising from respect, and Self-Beating arising from Loss of Respect, are not the most healthy qualities of mind, according to Buddhism … Technically, both come from an idea of Self being valued high or low in the others' eyes, therefore from the ego. …

(this is 100% based on my first teacher's instructions, not my personal interpretation) Ego. All these thoughts come from the ego. Ego wants to destroy anything that hurts it. … Ill will comes from the Ego. Never let Ego defend itself. Always act from the objective perspective, for the greater good. …

Curiosity is alright, but ego is very tricky! Ego can use anything to lead you away from true dharma. Many things that are not very bad, but not dharma-related (and even some that are dharma-related!) … Otherwise you think you are learning something useful -- and instead you are feeding your ego! …

Meaning, you say to yourself "this is my ego getting angry", "this is my ego feeling hurt", or "this is my ego wants to feel superior" etc. … Blame it on the ego, then discipline the ego like a misbehaving child. identify the source of anger in an attachment. …

Oftentimes we ourselves do not notice how the ego uses our communications to defend, rationalize, and self-promote. … Starving the ego is a quintessential Mahayana practice and its importance cannot be overemphasized. …

Reifications is the substance the ego is made from. Since ego is a conglomerate of reifications, by overcoming the ego you overcome reifications and vice versa. And how do you overcome the ego? … All of these are reifications the ego feeds on. …

The thing with ego, its attitudes and motives are always well masqueraded. Ego is a master of disguise, it has endless capacity for self-rationalization. … This death of ego is the greatest disappointment a human can encounter in their life. …

Kill the ego. Ego is attachment to one philosophical position. When ego is murdered one can see with clarity as one is no longer boxed by one's position, and without ego compassion arises by itself. … Kill your ego. …

Whenever you have a real-life situation that involves working with other people, there's a chance you are letting your ego drive and ego loves dealing in labels. … to do what's objectively wholesome, regardless of what that does to your ego. …

You can be intent on something because of your ego, your fear, your attachment - or you can be intent on overcoming your ego, your fear, your attachment, your limits. … Is it my ego trying to defend itself? Or is it objectively good? …

Which basically means, you try NOT to act out of ego and you DO try to act in "the best way possible" in every given situation. Acting out of ego includes mental, verbal, and physical action. … Ego is made of attachments. No ego - no attachments. No attachments - no ego. Metta is one of the "Four Brahmaviharas". …

At this next level, ego often manifests as "spiritual materialism" -- a subconscious tendency to accumulate goodness as food for one's ego, to get a kick out of being "perfect" -- a secretly perverted … This is what I would recommend to focus your practice on, stalking and starving the ego. Once ego gets thin enough, realization of theoretical concepts (like pratityasamutpada) comes easy. …

Somehow the main point I got from the books was what the ego is and how it functions. Here in this answer I will equate Trungpa's Ego with Conceit in your question. … Ego has no other purpose than finding all sorts of confirmations of its views, stereotypes, and emotional formulas, because they are what it is. …

Murder the ego. … It is mostly because ego is the very tangle of attachments and illusions that we are trying to liberate from. …

The biggest attachment is Ego, the feeling of self-significance in the world. … So Ego is like a big sore, very sensitive, that makes you very vulnerable. …