'Ego' Articles
Spend all your life living, and you will have expended nothing, and gained everything. Take joy in what you engage in. Take joy in the connection, but realize that you are more. You are free entirely within your being, and you can fully experience the entirety of your life rather than be identified with one aspect or one narrowly defined view. I am no one … thing. No one thing. No one identity.
“Every normal person, in fact, is only normal on the average. His ego approximates to that of the psychotic in some part or other and to a greater or lesser extent.” Sigmund Freud (Austrian neurologist and Founder of psychoanalysis. 1856-1939)
“If due to ego you think: I shall not fight; this resolve of yours is vain. Your own nature will compel you.” Bhagavad Gita
Self Thinking
Ego is the subject, and ego is in a way all subjects and all subjectivity. We are drilled pretty heavily in the ideas and activities of ego, and in a lot of things we are supposed to do about selves. What would we do without all this self thinking? Without all this self thinking we could have self experience, but that is not allowed in our teaching/training/conditioning is it? No, and I think we’re conditioned into self thinking to actually avoid the experience. Yes, because experience would guide our actions, and if self experience guided our actions they would have… Seek More
Inner Jungle
What is the way to self experience? This nature that people distrust, the nature that people disrespect because it’s amoral, unfeeling, unkind, these are all human judgements that denote a human understanding of nature, and we have to make it “better” for us. This reminds me of a Buddhist talk I heard. He asked people who their loved one was to them, and people gave the usual ‘thinking’ answers of lifelong partner etc. which he went on to say is all wrong, because all anyone is to us is the experience they give us in any moment. I think this… Seek More
Who?
There are a lot of very strong opinions on ego. From what exactly it is, to how important it is, to what it means if anything, and how to deal with it. We have a “self”. When you take a moment, and aren’t giving your attention to anything or anyone else at that moment, you are aware of being present. But how connected is this presence? Who knows? Ah, there is no who to know, but there is knowing, and that’s where things get convoluted. People are fixed in their thinking of who, and putting the cart before the horse.… Seek More
No One
You have the realization that you are not your view of yourself, and that you are not restricted to your conditioning. That you can live life regardless of the pulls of attachment. You can then of course pursue a moral creed, some religious doctrine, but is that yet another attachment? So you are left with “now what?”, but the world is still here for all your enlightenment. As the saying goes, “Before enlightenment chop wood and carry water, after enlightenment chop wood and carry water”. And yes, you learned something, and it was liberating, but where is the lasting liberation? Where… Seek More
Live Life
In seeing the illusion you can see the reality behind it, but many stop there. They see how they, and their teaching, was mistaken, and that attachment is the source of suffering. Then they become detached, and stop there. They bring a spirit of detachment to the world, and when confronted with attachments they won’t engage. They declare themselves detached as if it’s a position above their previous state. You should be able to live your life however you like, detached or not? Oh, indeed, and have the consequences of any choice, and enjoy your pleasure/pain as you see fit,… Seek More
