Overview: Based on 30 years of meditation and 30 years of political activism, David Edwards provides a simple, direct guide to transforming the emotional pain of ego of anger, resentment, dissatisfaction, boredom, jealousy, craving, and fear into love and bliss through witnessing, watching, and presence.

Verdict: A Sufi tale has it that God plays a joke on us when we’re born. He whispers in our ear: ‘You are the special one!’ The joke is that He says it to everyone. Referring to the works of Eckhart Tolle, Osho, Michael Singer, Steve Taylor, Erich Fromm, Noam Chomsky, and others, A Short Book About Ego describes the three key strategies we use to be ‘special’ the Successful Ego, the Suffering Ego, and the Righteous Ego arguing that the drive to be ‘above’ others is the ultimate root of all misery and prejudice.

Nothing humanizes us like the pain we’re willing to accept and embrace. Nothing dehumanizes us like the pain we’re willing to reject and project onto others. Drawn from in-depth personal experience, A Short Book About Ego argues that the best way to escape from a man-eating tiger in hot pursuit is to stop, turn, and jump into the tiger’s mouth!

An enthralling read about the change of consciousness we all could, nay should contemplate going through, and sooner rather than later, and highlighting the clearest path to freedom through the ancient art of meditation, A Short Book About Ego...: and the Remedy of Meditation is a prose that does much more than that.

For author David Edwards seems uniquely attune to our present world, bringing forth clear and wise teachings on key issues of our times - such as the environment, social responsibility, and working with our emotional afflictions - whilst also blending a fresh perspective on how to meditate with heartfelt encouragement to take the path of compassion and engage in actions that benefit others.

About the Author - David Edwards is the co-editor of the website Media Lens, which has been campaigning for compassionate reporting on human and animal rights, and environmental politics, for two decades. His work has appeared in Tricycle, The Ecologist, Resurgence and New Internationalist magazines. In 2007, he was awarded the Gandhi Foundation’s International Peace Prize.

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