What you resist persists. The more you resist yourself or your ego the stronger it becomes. This is called self-contradiction and self-sabotage. Hypocrisy.
I tend to read body language instead of the mind. After all according to Tolle the mind shouldn't be taken seriously. If I am not mistaken this man thinks he knows what he is talking about and loves it.
We know that already. What's the use of a Zen story? Try Zen yourself. It's not as easy as you think. Your teacher will beat the crap out of you if you talk like that.
The ego is very easy to dissolve. But not Greed.