The Ego, Your Amigo

How’s this for a wonderful little play on words?

The other day I was listening to a youtube video and there was a blip in the recording to where the words “me” and “ego” got mashed together and sounded like “mego.”

How perfect! An ego is like a mego! It’s like people have their own little mego’s running around. Do you have a mego?

Wait.. a mego? Amigo! A friend!

The ego is like your friend. He wants to keep you safe, give you advice, and alert you of danger in the world. He’s like a lookout, but sometimes he can be a bit overprotective and paranoid. Have you noticed that?

The problem is that we think we actually have to listen to our friend all the time. In fact, we’ve listened to him so much that we’ve forgotten that we are actually here listening to him independent of the words, and have effectively handed over our decision making to the chattery friend doling out protective advice!

The thing is though, we are not our friend. We are the one watching our friend talk. We are the one listening to our friend speak.

You are not your amigo. You are the one aware of your amigo being who he is.

Your amigo is your friend, here to help you separate yourself from perceived danger, but your amigo is not you. You don’t have to kill your amigo. Just recognize you’re not him and he’s not you.

Simple say, “Hey, I’m not that voice in my head. Not a single thing that the voice in my head says is actually me talking. Here I am, listening, and there is my friend, talking. If I want, I can simply stop listening and pay attention to something else, like the listening itself. I can be more interested in awareness itself, which is what I’m doing, than the words that are being spoken, for the words being spoken by someone else. The words I hear are never what I am! No thought or idea can ever actually be who I am. Here I am, regardless of if my amigo understands something or not! Here I am!”

That’s it. Complete and total disidentification with the little voice in your idea.

You are not your amigo.

You are that which is aware of your amigo.