Maze traps -real examples

[tashawoodfall]

Some examples I’ve recently encountered below.  Feel free to post any you’ve come across.

• The rat race -chasing money, stimulation, reputation and/or attention
• Social media -addiction to likes, looking for funny or stimulating content and attention, or for building up your identity/ego
• Alcohol or any other drug binges for emotional reasons
• Comfortable intimate relationships that hold you back
• Chasing status or reputation that doesn’t relate to your life purpose 
• Sex for egotistic purposes
• Comfortable low conscious friends to dump your problems to

That’s all I can think of right now ?

 

Edited August 27, 2018 by tashawoodfall

[Colin]

solid choices

[tashawoodfall]

@Feel Good The truth hurts sometimes 

Another one I discovered from Matt Kahn's latest video:

• The tendency for your ego to want more options/choices, wanting more then you need 

[robdl]

11 hours ago, tashawoodfall said:

Some examples I’ve recently encountered below.  Feel free to post any you’ve come across.

• The rat race -chasing money, stimulation, reputation and/or attention
• Social media -addiction to likes, looking for funny or stimulating content and attention, or for building up your identity/ego
• Alcohol or any other drug binges for emotional reasons
• Comfortable intimate relationships that hold you back
• Chasing status or reputation that doesn’t relate to your life purpose 
• Sex for egotistic purposes
• Comfortable low conscious friends to dump your problems to

That’s all I can think of right now ?

 

The common thread to your examples is the act of wanting/chasing/escaping to/searching for/looking for/seeking refuge in.

All acts of movement away from what-is.  This is the inherent nature of ego mind and how it self-sustains. 

Thought-self (ego) is constantly seeking security in its own movement through this seeking-escaping action.   No seeking-escaping, no ego

 

 

Edited August 27, 2018 by robdl

[Jack River]

59 minutes ago, robdl said:

The common thread to your examples is the act of wanting/chasing/escaping to/searching for/looking for/seeking refuge in.

All acts of movement away from what-is.  This is the inherent nature of ego mind and how it self-sustains. 

Thought-self (ego) is constantly seeking security in its own movement through this seeking-escaping action.   No seeking-escaping, no ego

 

 

Fear and psychological time

[Hello from Russia]

Nice idea for thread
I'll add some

• Getting married to a wrong person
• Making kids unconsciously (probably also with a wrong person)
• Going to college for a certain degree because your parents told you so or going to college at all because of your parents. Listening to parents too much in general (especially if they lean more to unconscious side, gotta accept them as they are).
• Reacting to shiny object too much
• Confusing map for territory
• Not putting effort to learn marketing\business skills (what you're doing doesn't matter)
• Judging and criticizing
• Ignoring consciousness work
• Ignoring contemplation, not thinking for oneself
• Getting lost in concepts
• Ignoring health issues
• Disrespecting value of proper nutrition
• Not commiting to life-long learning (stopping learning after college, etc, saw it in many of my friends)
• Confusing reading books for reading novels
• Trusting appearences too much, not being able to derive wisdom from things with non-shiny appearences. Sometimes someone might have a super valuable idea that could change your life but you disregard it simply because his or her "delivery" sucked and you didn't resonate with his "PRESENTATION" of that given idea. That's huge.
• Being obsessed with 10k hour and using it an excuse to not learn valuable skills
• Victim thinking, not taking 100% responsibility
• Being afraid to learn new skill because "you have no talent for it"

 

 

Edited August 27, 2018 by Hello from Russia

[tashawoodfall]

2 hours ago, robdl said:

The common thread to your examples is the act of wanting/chasing/escaping to/searching for/looking for/seeking refuge in.

All acts of movement away from what-is.  This is the inherent nature of ego mind and how it self-sustains. 

Thought-self (ego) is constantly seeking security in its own movement through this seeking-escaping action.   No seeking-escaping, no ego

@robdl Yes exactly you definitely have given the issue more clarity for me, much appreciated.  Its been quite the trickster monkey to catch and tame this past year I’ve got lost at each of those traps.  But the beast is out from under the bed now!

Edited August 28, 2018 by tashawoodfall

[tashawoodfall]

40 minutes ago, Hello from Russia said:

• Being afraid to learn new skill because "you have no talent for it"

 

@Hello from Russia  if you do indeed suck at it shouldn’t you outsource that?