Why is killing the ego/self desirable in Stoicism, Buddhism,

>>9335785
omg a kitty

>>9335785
>I like myself (and the world).
give it a couple more years

>>9335819
A better way to put it would have been: I like myself existing, and I like having the ability to experience the world.

So you're not as hostage to the caprices of your self. Ego-transcendance makes it easier to deal with lifes vicissitudes. If you can see an angry thought for what it is, you won't be as succeptible to being vitiated by it

>>9335785
>>9335831
The self the Buddhists reference and deny is probably different from what you're consindering.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anatta

>>9335785
the self you like is withering away, changing and dying as we speak

better not get attached to it, it's like getting attached to a particular wave and getting upset when it hits the beach

if you demand stasis from flux you're setting yourself up for suffering

>>9335785

From what I know (and that’s not that much) you don’t actually loss your drive towards creating art or studying or becoming a better person by also achieving wisdom (and in rare cases enlightenment, whatever that is – if it actually exists).

You don’t become some sort of robot without any “desires”, without any will, without any goals. From what I have read there are some forms of craving and attachment that are bad for you, especially clinging to hard to anything (since everything ultimately fades and dies).

There is also a great deal (at least in Buddhism) of training to pay attention on the now, on this moment. This is a form of enjoying life, of enjoying your existence: you actually try to make the most of it in all moments, wherever you are.

I think that the destruction of ego is more a realization of the connection of all things, the union of all forms, some sort of understanding of a Big-Bang-like-origin, but not an intellectual understanding, no, an intuitive one. It is a realization one acquires through practice, not study. But that doesn’t mean that you are going to lose your own brain-activity, that you are going to lose your own consciousness. Rather, your consciousness will be expanded. You will still be you, but with much more understanding of reality (new universes bursting inside your brain like grapes on the mouth, covering the neurons with their juice). Yet you will still have books you like, songs you love, foods that are especially tasty to you, etc., etc. Only thing is that you are not going to be attached to this things and will know (in your marrow and your blood) that all those things are transitory, that even the greatest achievements of the human mind will perish, that every good sensation (and all bad sensation) passes.

This is what I have understand of Buddhism. Please, someone correct me if I am wrong.