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Originally Posted by Ralph  The subject seems challenging enough for me to come up with my own point of view.
What is ego? Is it separate from us?
Ego is the sum of all the conditioning, patterns, memories and wounds created by your mind. (Eckhart Tolle goes as far as to say that it's created by collective human pain, I neither agree nor disagree with this - I just don't know either way.) |
I think it's better to use your own experiences, rather someone else's philosophy, so have you personal experience of your ego being the sum of all you have described? Have you experienced your own ego at all?
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Ego is a vital part of my mind, and therefore it is not me. It is one of my tools. It contains my whole life story, the temporary identity, the concept of me as a person. It also contains some less useless stuff like deriving sense of self from material possessions and thought forms. Ego is a part of mind, and therefore it is separate from who I really am. It's quite useful, but very pesky if not used sporadically.
Ralph
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Are you simply saying "everything I have become(ego) is
not real" and "everything I am not,
is real (who you really are)?" It doesn't make sense to me unless you are certain of another self existing somewhere, some place. In which case the concept of ego is of no use at all. The concept of ego is to become aware of the
person we have become. It can only exist in human traits. Isn't the
real you not human by your definition?