Jackamon meets his Maker

I was feeling pleased with myself  the other day over my initial blog & quotes entries when, with seamless grace, I followed a link to a site called Just Perception and found myself called out:

     The world is full of half-enlightened masters.  Overly clever, too "sensitive" to live in the real world, they surround themselves with selfish pleasures and bestow their grandiose teachings upon the unwary.  Prematurely publiciizing themselves, intent upon reaching some spiritual climax, they constantly sacrifice the truth and deviate from the Tao.  What they really offer the world is their own confusion.  The true master understands that enlightenment is not the end, but the means.
                                                                        Lao-Tzu

I immediately recognized myself in that characterization and for the first time felt the frightening implications of no-self on my ego. My cleverness shrunk alarmingly.