Posts Tagged ‘Ego’
The mind makes all sorts of silly commentary. Let’s say you’re walking outside and it’s cold. The mind goes, “It’s cold out here!” Now what good does that do you? You already know it’s cold! 
From there, the mind can go, “Well, I’ll be back home where it’s nice and warm in just a few minutes.”
What it’s doing is finding a way to give you some semblance of control. It can’t control external factors such as the weather, so it’ll attempt to control your inner world and say that things will be better in the future so that it feels okay. It’s a defense mechanism, really.
You can’t control what’s outside of you including other people, lottery numbers, whether you get the promotion or not, etc.
This creates a sort of insecurity because of the uncertainty. Fear arises from insecurity and not being in control. This inner mental narration gives you an illusion of control, much like a backseat driver. You take something which really doesn’t have anything to do with you, a tree perhaps, and start labeling and judging it to fit your model of the world and thus you create a relationship with it based on your values and beliefs. You’ve taken something out of your control and brought it into a reality which is more in your control. You’re no longer dealing with the object itself, but your perspective of the object.
So we could say that the mind is our tool to attempt to control reality. (We’re not able to control reality itself, but merely our perspective of it. Note how the tool fits in with the Law of Attraction…)
However, we actually give our minds an impossible task. It’s like this:
“I want everything to go my way. I want everyone to like me and approve of me. I want all my jokes to be well received. I don’t want anyone to speak badly of me. I don’t want anything I don’t like to happen to me. I don’t want anything to hurt me. I want everything I like to happen.”
Then you tell the mind to make all this happen, even if it has to work on it continuously. Just make it happen!
The mind, being an obedient little servant, goes, “You got it, boss! I’m on the job.”
Can you imagine any person actually trying to accomplish this? It’s impossible! It’s the equivalent of trying to jump from the earth to the moon. It’s just not a practical task.
Most minds are neurotic because they’re trying to do the impossible. If a human body kept trying to jump to the moon, we’d call the person crazy. Now the mind, too, is trying to do something crazy, but since everyone’s trying to do the mental equivalent of jumping to the moon, we call that normal. 
That’s not natural. That’s insane! Read More …
Spiritual Truth is something to know, to experience, not something to believe in. The joy and love and peace of God can be actually experienced once you know how to access it.
Do you need a belief system to know how many heads are sticking up out of your neck? If I told you you had 18 heads sticking out of your neck, would a debate even be necessary? No.
You know you have only one physical head. You experience it. You know it. No belief system or opinion is necessary.
It’s when you lack the complete knowingness and experience that the weaker substitute of belief or opinion (which only exist in the mind, not in reality) is necessary.
Whether or not Jesus turned water into wine, or whether Adam and Eve actually existed, it’s not something we can actually experience. Thus, it’s basically a question of whether you believe in it or not. Since there’s no way of proving it one way or another, all you have are people arguing and defending their belief systems which is essentially a big house of cards. People are terrified of what will happen if their cards come tumbling down.
What are some spiritual truths that can be experienced and that really make a DIFFERENCE in your life? Read More …
We’re going to be describing the ego in terms of a metaphor which will allow us to both visualize the effects of using the ego in the world, as well as understand the necessity for surrendering the ego.
The ego is simply a tool, an automatic duality-creating machine which allows us to experience every possible aspect of life.
Now the problem is not so much that the ego itself exists, but the fact that people are identified with it.
The ego has a useful purpose: to allow us to believe that illusions are a reality and thus experience both the real and the illusory. The ego is simply a tool.
It’s similar to someone using a hammer. When a nail needs to be nailed into a wall, a hammer is certainly a very useful tool. So, people find that it benefits them to use the hammer and thus they pick it up and use it to their advantage. Cool. No problem.
It’s very clear that while you’re using the hammer, the hammer is not YOU, but simply a tool that you are using with which to engage in the process of creation. 
The “problem” is that most people think that they literally ARE the hammer and that there is nothing else they can be, so they continue hammering in every activity in life: while talking to others, having sex with a partner, dealing with foreign politics, resolving disagreements, even in talking to themselves!
…and then people wonder why the world is in the shape that it’s in. 
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What are you?
It’s a simple question.
Chances are, if you’re reading this article, you’re human. (To all you aliens and humanoids out there reading this article, hello! This will apply to you too!)
So, for the sake of argument, let’s say you’re a human being. If someone were to point to you, they would be pointing to your body, as if the body was you. When you see the body of your friend “Bob” approaching, you’ll probably say hello to the “body” of Bob, as if he was his body.
If Bob gets his arms and legs chopped off, is he still Bob? Indeed he is. The same applies to you. You could even get your head cut off, and you’d still be you. YOU wouldn’t disappear.
So, you must not be your body.
Ah, you must then be the mind inside the body, right? That makes more sense. Afterall, that’s where your personality lies, your thoughts, opinions, belief systems, memories… Sure your body is certainly one of a kind, but most everything important that makes you unique lies inside your mind, yes?
You know that little voice inside your head? … If you just said to yourself, “What little voice?”, THAT’S the little voice!
Go and and tell yourself to stop thinking. Do it. Stop thinking.
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Can’t do it, can you?
The reason why is because your thoughts are NOT YOU. The thoughts automatically come and go on their own, without any conscious control, much like your breath.
And, like your breath, your mind can influence itself to try and think a certain thought, at least temporarily, but ultimately you do not have any control over your mind. Read More …
Love is all there is.
It is literally impossible for anything other than Love to exist. Yet, if Love is all you experience, you will never truly be able to appreciate it.
In the same way that your favorite food grows tiresome if you eat it consistently, it is necessary to experience the opposite of that which you enjoy in order to fully understand and appreciate that which you enjoy.
Because Love is all there is and it’s impossible to experience anything other than Love, the next best thing is to forget and create the illusion of fear. You are given the tremendous gift of being able to believe fear is real in order to fully appreciate Love.
In the absence of that which you are NOT, that which you ARE is NOT.
In this lifetime and in all your other lifetimes, you have the ability to create whatever it is you wish. You get to create fear. You get to create Love. With enough trial and error, you’ll start to come to the conclusion that Love simply feels better. It’s a more enjoyable place to be. Fear may feel good to the ego, but it’s ultimately a destructive energy. What may feel righteous or justified in the short term will never bring long term happiness.
If fear doesn’t exist, how is it that we can experience it?
Let’s take a look at several pairs of opposites. Read More …
Let’s have some fun and play God.
Imagine you live in the world of the Absolute, where everything is perfect, loving, whole, united, connected, and wonderful.
That’s great and all, but you can’t really understand or appreciate anything because you’ve never experienced its opposite.
So you’re God and you decide you want to blow yourself up into an infinite number of smaller versions of yourself, all of whom can experience the universe from every possible angle and vantage point.
Now, there’s no way to not be who you are. The next best thing you can do is to forget.
What’s a great way of doing this? Give these little pieces of yourself an ego.
The ego is basically what allows you to create the illusion of and thus experience the exact opposite of who you are. You choose to do this because it allows you to experience BOTH who you are and who you are not.
With this new gift of the ego, you can experience fear. Now you will be able to fully appreciate love. Read More …
