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Originally Posted by Maguru  IMO the ego is a concept. It is useful in determining our inner (spiritual) workings that are difficult to describe. However, there have been many references to ego that infer the ego is like a separate entity inhabiting our bodies, eg. "because the ego is too proud to be put aside or managed" and "ego hates being in the present moment."
This in turn gives ego a mind of its own that is constantly at odds with self.
We only have one mind. It is all us. There is no separation. If ego thinks, we think. If ego feels, we feel. If ego believes, we believe. If ego is too proud then so are we. The ego is merely a reflection of self that we sometimes do not wish to see.
The concept of ego is to bring awareness of parts of self, e.g. behavioural patterns, thinking patterns etc.
Ego as a separate entity doesn't exist. It's just a concept to bring awareness of who we truly are being and not who we think we are being. |
Without being too controversal, I believe that the ego is actually the real YOU.
This is defined in the latter day dictionaries as being 'self'
The mind is actually the soul, and the spirit is the part of man which belongs to God.
Hence spirit, soul and body as a Trinity.
The act of proudness is not really what the ego, is all about.
Main definition, being "The I Am"
We can devide this further into two catagories
1) Positive Ego
2) Negative Ego.
Without being egoistic, we die. Being proud, is not to be ashamed off, it merely means that we respect our inner self.
If we are not ego, then we shun the ego and communication is lost between overself and man.
One way of rejecting the ego, is to get fat, lazy and greedy. It can be said that this is food for the ego....but not so.
The ego is a proud part, not seen as a gluttonous part of us. It is something to be proud off, not shunned.
Value is ego, as without value we deterioate..and shun messages from the self.
That is my view.
George.
(Oh, by the way...Hello)