Book List: Books from the Emotional/Enlightenment section

[MM1988]

Am I right when I assume that books like Meditations by Marcus Aurelius & The Six Pillars of Self Esteem (Both from the free sample) will make you emulate an enlightened person, because these emotional problems really stem from ego? Like, Meditations will tell you how you feel about certain things based on logic because thats far mor feasable for a beginner. So it is probably a good idea to do meditation on the side just to be more aware of your inner workings but once you are at a certain level with your meditation and insight (after years) these books would be useless to you, is this right?

 

The reason I ask is because I have concepts from these "lower level" books coming up during the day, but im also very interrested in non duality teaching and I want to sort all this information in my mind, because I dont know if these teachings contradict each other or build up on one another, and when in which order. So the main problem is that I feel some of the categories on the book list are not as seperate as they seem to be, it would be nice to know how all these knowledge integrates into a big picture. 

Edited January 8, 2018 by MM1988

[Girzo]

34 minutes ago, MM1988 said:

Am I right when I assume that books like Meditations by Marcus Aurelius & The Six Pillars of Self Esteem (Both from the free sample) will make you emulate an enlightened person, because these emotional problems really stem from ego?

No, because Enlightment has nothing to do with that. And yes, because there's no reason why Enlightened person wouldn't behave such way.

There's really no excuse for not doing both. Self-actualization and spiritual work.

39 minutes ago, MM1988 said:

I dont know if these teachings contradict each other or build up on one another,

If something contradicts itself, then remember it's a feature not a bug. You have to learn how to deal with that on your own.

41 minutes ago, MM1988 said:

categories on the book list are not as seperate as they seem to be

The whole Reality is not as separate as it seems to be! 

Have I answered your question?