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

About the Author
David Edwards is the coeditor of the website Media Lens (www.medialens.org 72k followers on X), 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.


Book Information
ISBN 9781803418162
Author David Edwards
Format Paperback
Page Count 144
Imprint Mantra Books
Publisher Collective Ink