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A comment or two on Eckhart Tolle and Steve's post:

Eckhart never went to war with his ego. He was suffering horribly, and woke up one morning and his ego "had died" meaning he no longer identified with his ego. He still had a persona, an "Eckhart" that presented itself to the world, but "he" knew that "he" wasn't that persona, that ego, that mind. He sounds in his description just like Ramana Maharshi and Nisargadatta Maharaj and some of the great Zen masters.

If I read Steve correctly, or maybe I'm reading between the lines, it isn't the Eckharts and Ramanas that "go to war with the ego" it is the people who read them and think "I've got to get rid of this ego." It is the unconscious spiritual seeker who spends hours and hours trying to destroy his ego.

But as the gurus have said, it is the belief that you are the ego that is the problem. You aren't. Letting go of identification is the key. As another poster said, putting your attention on that which you truly are, awareness itself, will do the trick. Just pay attention to what you truly are.