Without ego-arrogance, we would be more empathy to the all sentient beings.

 

Author: Tao Qing Hsu (Hsu, Tao-qing) 

How to remove the ego-arrogance?

  

How to remove the ego-arrogance? It is easy to know, but it is hard to do. The way is non-ego, without the ego. The arrogance is caused by ego. Removing the ego is naturally eliminating the arrogance.

 

How to be without ego? All of the matters, phenomenon, appearances, sound, success, achievement, gain or lose, and things in outside and inside, are viewed as the emptiness-picture. If all things in outside and inside are emptiness-picture, what could we compare to? There is nothing which could be compared. If there is nothing to be compared, how could it be possible for us to think that we are more importance or superiority than other people? We then understand that there is no reason to cause the arrogance.

Without ego-arrogance, we would be more empathy to the all sentient beings.

  

Without ego-arrogance, we would be more empathy to the all sentient beings and could listen to any criticism, suggestion, opinions into our mind. We then could treat people more respectfully and equally. Meanwhile, we would be more willing to share any self-advantage based on the equal stance and absolutely would not dare to bully others.

 

You might have read a lot of news, stories or novels about the tragic end caused by ego-arrogance. And you might have ever encountered any one of the ego-arrogant in your life. Do you have ever thought how to get along with them? Complaining and anger is not a good ideal. To empathy them is a good way.

 

May we have removed the ego-arrogance someday and have the empathy for those persons who are suffering the pain caused by ego-arrogance.  

What is the difference between ego-arrogance and self-confidence? How to distinguish both of them?

 

Author: Tao Qing Hsu (Hsu, Tao-qing) 

 

There is a blind point in our own mind. That is, we usually mis-cognizant the ego-arrogance as self-confidence. What is the difference between ego-arrogance and self-confidence? How to distinguish both of them?

 

There is an easy way to distinguish the difference between ego-arrogance and self-confidence. A person with ego-arrogance would despise or purposely disturb other people by scolding, humiliating words, or by body language, or by body movement, even to use the way of rejection or isolation, intimidation and threaten. In other words, in mental and in physical body, they use the way to bully people so as to demonstrate their dominance, importance and superiority. So we could find out that the relationship of each other is unbalanced and unequal.

 

But, a person with self-confidence is a person with empathy and self-respect so could respect other people on the equal stance. Secondly, they would self-acknowledge that their knowledge is actually limited so they are really in the state of humble and would try to understand the knowledge what they don't know. They rationally talk about things. It is not necessary for them to attack people by any humiliating words or to despise other people by any body language or movement.

Even the ego-arrogant people, they are suffering in the affliction and problem by their own stupid ego-arrogance. Why?

 

Author: Tao Qing Hsu (Hsu, Tao-qing) 

 

The Buddha had advised us that there are five negative psychological characteristics, which is like toxins would poison our physical and mental body. These five negative psychological characteristics are called as Five Poisons, which are the greedy, hatred(or as anger, resentment, grudge), infatuation(or as stupidity, obsession), arrogance (or as pride), and suspicion. The arrogance is one of the Five Poisons which are not only to harm ourselves but also would harm other people.

 

There is a famous novel as “Pride and Prejudice”. If we insight the characteristic of arrogance, we would find out that the ego-arrogance would bring the self-prejudice. Actually, both of them are formed at the same time.

 

Secondly, the ego-arrogance is always linked to the stubborn mind, even to purposely reverse the right and wrong, and to use such opinionated ability and concept to affect other people, even to bully them.

 

Therefore, the ego-arrogant people always want to hold the power of control other people, so they could not accept other people’s opinion or criticism.

 

After the carefully observation about the characteristic of ego-arrogance, we understand that the mind of ego-arrogance is actually the self-limited and self-imprisoned mind. Under the circumstance, how could it be possible for them to liberate themselves from the suffering in life?     

 

Unfortunately, the ego-arrogance is existed in most people, from the child to the elder, from the poor to the rich, from the illiterate to the elite of knowledge, from the employee to the boss, and from the masses to the politician. We could find the “ghost” of the ego-arrogance everywhere or in every person, even to find out that it is existed in our own body. Mostly, we could easily perceive the other people’s ego-arrogance. However, it is difficult for us to perceive our own ego-arrogance.