There's a true and a false ego. The false ego is who you "think" you are; the true is who you know
you are. One is of the lower self; the other is of the higher Self. The
true ego feels good when it thinks, says or does something good. The
good feeling comes with humility and gratitude - which is acknowledgment
that the good wasn't caused by him alone, but in conjunction with his
inner or higher Self. He knows he didn't do it of his personality alone,
and he's grateful for this knowledge and power.
The false ego on the other hand thinks that any good he does is from himself alone. He thinks that he is God; that the world revolves around him alone. He can't see anything else nor does he want to see anything else. Nothing is bigger or better than himself. It's all about him first, last and always.
This is his false coping mechanism, his false method of survival, his false security blanket, his false comfort zone. Such a person may have material success but will never be very healthy, happy, peaceful or free - because he's living in falsity not reality.
The false ego is very subtle, devious and powerful. Correcting it is the most difficult challenge we face in life because it does not want to die, does not want to commit suicide. It wants to continue the delusion that it is God, and will go to any length to maintain that delusion.
The only way you can annihilate or neutralize the false ego is through some form of what we call "meditation." Meditation in this context means a way to transcend thinking because thinking instead of knowing is from the insecure ego instead of the truth. To get to the truth we have to bypass the ego. Pure meditation is how you do it.
But here's the catch: If you meditate for the purpose of overcoming the ego you will fail because then your meditation is no longer pure. Purity means effortless or purposeless. If that's what your "non-intention" is then you'll overcome the false, personal ego because then the thinking, egotistical mind is not part of the equation. The thinking mind alone is what deludes and empowers the false ego in the first place. And you cannot solve a problem with the same mind that caused it.
While pure meditation does not have a purpose, it does have a result. The result is that the false ego is exposed as being delusional. And anything exposed can be dropped at will, while anything hidden is extremely difficult to overcome.
Pure meditation is simply the practice of keeping a little distance from all you see, hear, think, feel and do, all the time, to the best of your ability.
The false ego on the other hand thinks that any good he does is from himself alone. He thinks that he is God; that the world revolves around him alone. He can't see anything else nor does he want to see anything else. Nothing is bigger or better than himself. It's all about him first, last and always.
This is his false coping mechanism, his false method of survival, his false security blanket, his false comfort zone. Such a person may have material success but will never be very healthy, happy, peaceful or free - because he's living in falsity not reality.
The false ego is very subtle, devious and powerful. Correcting it is the most difficult challenge we face in life because it does not want to die, does not want to commit suicide. It wants to continue the delusion that it is God, and will go to any length to maintain that delusion.
The only way you can annihilate or neutralize the false ego is through some form of what we call "meditation." Meditation in this context means a way to transcend thinking because thinking instead of knowing is from the insecure ego instead of the truth. To get to the truth we have to bypass the ego. Pure meditation is how you do it.
But here's the catch: If you meditate for the purpose of overcoming the ego you will fail because then your meditation is no longer pure. Purity means effortless or purposeless. If that's what your "non-intention" is then you'll overcome the false, personal ego because then the thinking, egotistical mind is not part of the equation. The thinking mind alone is what deludes and empowers the false ego in the first place. And you cannot solve a problem with the same mind that caused it.
While pure meditation does not have a purpose, it does have a result. The result is that the false ego is exposed as being delusional. And anything exposed can be dropped at will, while anything hidden is extremely difficult to overcome.
Pure meditation is simply the practice of keeping a little distance from all you see, hear, think, feel and do, all the time, to the best of your ability.
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