Ego Clinging.

**Shechen Gyaltsap Pema Namgyal**:

**As a mental exercise to vanquish ego-clinging,

Recollect all the times you have been wronged.

First, think of all the obscuring emotions

And the notion that beings and phenomena truly exist,

Which create obstacles to the higher aspirations

Of all beings in general and of Dharma practicioners in particular,

And the difficulties and adversities arising from these.

The gather all of them with your inhalation,

Dissolve it into your own ego-clinging

And destroy the curse itself.

Gather into one essential point

A fierce determination to eliminate ego-clinging

Together with its antidote

And the meditation practice that averts it.**

To know is to not suffer. As the source of pain by the five obscuring emotions, the eight wordly concerns and all afflictive mental factors is ego-clinging.

Clinging to an invented concept is making the narrow prisonlike dwelling and painful frustrating self concern.

**Shantideva**:

"There is immeasurable virtue,

In wanting to cure even the mildest headache of a single being,

What about wanting to dispel

All of the sufferings of all beings?"

Gratefulness to all compassionated ones, altruistic sharing insight for the sake of others. Along interconnection with them (compassionate wise ones) to  no separate openess; is undoing subtle clinging. _/\_ _/\_ _/\_