Not sure if this was meant as a joke or not, but this is a fundamental misunderstanding of what the term “ego death” means. Ego death roughly refers to a state of being in which you recognize there really is no difference between you and the people around you and in your world. Definitions vary a little from that on a person to person basis, but afaik ego death is unrelated to the the version of ego that is a synonym for arrogance
Isn’t that just Sonder? I was under the impression that ego death mean the complete disolution of ones ego, the ego being kind of like the cell membrane between your self and the rest of the universe such that the difference between self and not-self dissapears entierly. Afaik its usually associated with psychadelics and no one could be in such a state permamently and still function.
I guess so. This is my first time hearing the term sonder, they seem like the same idea with different prose after a bit of reading definitions. Psychedelics are a shortcut to ego death, but they also distort the meaning a bit as you experience hallucinations at the same time so its overall a much more intense experience. Ego death is a well defined concept in buddhism, definitely not just psychedelics. Having said that, I would be 0% surprised to learn that the first Buddhist to have ever defined ego death did so shortly after a chemically induced trip to the stratosphere
I’m the biggest star, at this Buddhist Meditation Bar
Amazing