A note from my enlightened father, who shared some light with me this morning on the question of "Ego."
The ego is simply the wrong minded, flip side of your right minded essence that wants to exclude so it/you can be separate and "special" rather than one and the same with all that is. Only the ego wants praise and recognition because it sees itself/you as a separate entity. The only way it can make this work, in it's logic, is to make everyone else the enemy. The guilt that this position generates is intolerable so it created "projection" which shifts this felt guilt outside of it's "oneness" creating the perception of "others" so they can be guilty and it/you can be the innocent bystander. This created the world as we see it but it's an illusion. The only thing that's real is God and his created Son which is also not separate but part of the "oneness." That is why anything perceived as a form----- bodies, animals, and all inanimate objects---- are seen incorrectly because all that is, is contained in the inseparable oneness of God. I am on the 16th day of the workbook (Course in Miracles), which i have never done. The truth is----nothing matters at this level of form. We all want to clean up the mess in our perceived world, and it is a complete waste of time. I realize that to actually accept this seems impossible but until we do, we will stay STUCK in this nightmare constantly trying to make it seem bearable. If one could stop running the mental tapes and be totally still,awake, present and aware of only this moment one would see what is real and that is my goal!
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"If one could stop running the mental tapes and be totally still,awake, present and aware of only this moment one would see what is real and that is my goal!"....THIS IS THE ESSENCE!!! let us tread on this path alone and together beacause this is the truth....for alone we fly...
i hve been reading you regularly....what alwys touches me is the honesty with which you bring forth whats going on in there.
Thanks Jyotsana. I am also on the path to "enlightment" or "Essence" as you say! If we could all do this together - we would realize that we really are "one" and this is the truth. It's so hard to maintain "presence" - don't you think?
quite an interesting post. well, i don't know why do we all rule out The Black as a part of us that we are willing to keep. most of us think we dont 'want to' but we are 'forced to (by our Ego)'. it's wrong!
you are right, Jackie. it is this feeling of being an 'individual separated from the rest' that gives rise to the Ego. but it is the 'Ego' only, then, that makes us 'survive' under any 'offense'! Had the world been without Black... we could have done away with our personal 'need' of an Ego.
i believe 'gaining control' of one's own 'shade' with 'situation' is more fundamental.
very hard...i think this is what is called penance or tapashcharya as in Sanskrit...most of the times my mind wanders...and then with the help of some technique, i hve to bring it back to the moment...
that is some enlightment ..
but then the word "maya" how to overcome that?
recently went thru a word "positive ego" anything perceived with positive stimulus ...
great writings dear
keep it up food for soul :)
btw my feed is having some problem so my contents wont show updated version ..will try to fix it soon
tc
sayani
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