The ego is an illusion. Being a separate identity is fake. You can't have a war with it because it doesn't exist. Only the ego can fight itself.
Try to find yourself as you think you are, look for this thing called an ego. Can you really find it and point to it in any way? As this separate self we think we are? No we can't. It is always involved as part of everything else, of being in experience. It's duality itself. The ego is what mutually arises as the experience of duality. The duality of me and everything else. Transcending is realizing that it's a duality perception system. That illusion doesn't go away if transcended either. We just know that it's an illusion and don't buy into it in an addictive way any more.
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