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Originally Posted by Judge  I see ego as a tool, like thought and emotion.
These tools are for validating experience, reality, your life.
As with all tools, you pick them up to use and put them down when you no longer require them.
The only problem is that because we use them constantly and/or more than we need to, they become our default defining system to view reality.
They actually end up blocking most of what is really there.
Judge |
I very much agree with you here. The ego is not me, it is a part of me yes that cannot be denied, but it is not me. I have experienced a shift in my perspective recently and it has come to my attention (through direct experience, not belief or what someone has told me) that you can in fact just watch the ego at work (and smile at it like a little child who's over excited and trying to get your attention). You can separate yourself from it and therefore how can it be 'you'? Complete identification with it may make it appear that its you, but it's really not. All it takes is one step back and that become overwhelmingly (and very joyfully) obvious! good thread this!