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What is the Ego? Should it be Destroyed?
by Mateo Sol
IF YOU’VE EVER EXPLORED THE TRANSCENDENTAL FIELD OF SPIRITUALITY, YOU WOULD HAVE DISCOVERED THAT THE EGO IS OFTEN SPOKEN ABOUT WITH CONTEMPT.
Many people carry the belief that the ego needs to be destroyed, muzzled or even killed. But do we need to destroy the ego? What is the ego, really? And furthermore, what canyou learn about your own ego?
WHAT IS THE EGO?
The ego is basically your identity, or who you think you are.
Your ego is usually constructed of a name, a personality, and a story. Within this personal story is a collection of memories, beliefs, impressions and sensations about who “you are,” where “you came from,” what “you’re good and bad at,” what “you’ve experienced,” and on, and on, and on, ad infinitum.
THE EGO AND DUALITY
The ego is a veil between what you think you are and what you actually are. You live under the illusion of the mind, totally unaware that you are directed by a great big load of stories! — Isira Sananda
Your ego was created, and is currently maintained, by the belief that you are “separate” from others and life itself. In other words, your ego believes that you are firmly HERE, and other people are firmly THERE. You have a body, life, and personality that is distinctly different from others. Therefore, according to the ego, you are not like other people. You are different. Or that’s what your thoughts tell you anyway.
As a result of being taught (or conditioned) to believe that you are a separate individual, you experience fear and suffering. Instead of simply experiencing life in its purity and wholeness, you filter life through your mind. You are taught to live life in duality. Duality is essentially the state of separation — it is the opposite of reality. It is the product of the mind. In duality, we essentially “split” or divide life.
Examples of duality include filtering life through the lenses of “right/wrong,” “good/bad,” “pretty/ugly,” “holy/sinful,” “love/hate” etc. As a product of living in duality, we create untold amounts of suffering for ourselves because we are no longer open to life. Instead, our lives become centered around judgement, condemnation, and fear. As a result, we alienate and destroy others who we perceive of as being “bad,” “wrong,” and “sinful” to protect our ideas of what is “right” and “holy.”
The more deeply we are entrenched in duality, the more we experience problems such as hatred, anger, depression, paranoia, anxiety and perversion. Not only do we sever ourselves from others, but we are cut off from ourselves as well. Anything within us that we perceive of as being “evil/bad/wrong/sinful” we suppress, repress and deny the existence of. As a result of this repressed energy, our Shadow Selves grow more and more twisted, destructive and depraved. Finally, this intense suffering is expressed in our relationships and the world at large.
Philosophers stone – selected views from the boat http://philosophers-stone.co.uk
Source: http://www.phoenixisrisen.co.uk/?p=12363
“As a result, we alienate and destroy others who we perceive of as being “bad,” “wrong,” and “sinful” to protect our ideas of what is “right” and “holy.” ”
Seems a bit like there’s some borg mentality there. Just saying. Are you completely without morality? Do you relate to things like you? How’s that for ego.
I mean is a whole, All is fair in love and war or something? So I can’t share love or hate.
Let me try explain that from a different perspective, the homogenized are the same and obviously promote and espouse the same things. There is no individuality (notice the word, btw) in that.
In mathemagical terms, let’s for instance imagine this singularity sort of thing some people like promoting. A relatively simplistic way of describing that would be graphing 1.0/1.0 to 1.0/0.0. That results in aliasing.
The thing is, it kind of depends on the perspective you use to look at it. If instead of accepting what consensus teaches about how the graph of 1.0/1.0 to 1.0/0.0 SHOULD look at 1.0/0.0, maybe the point is to define what it is.
And that’s how machines break.