Quote Originally Posted by silke View Post
How is "Ego-attachment" "NOT the self"?

If you didn't have an individuated, self-specialized ego, how do you get to be a person? And why are you negating that part of yourself?
Because it is a world-view, a belief, a modus operandi, that the ego attaches itself to. A fixation, as @waddup mentioned. It is not the ego. And in turn, the ego is not the self, though we like to tell ourselves otherwise. So already, once's E-type is at least twice removed from our essence.