01-04-2016, 08:42 PM
The Ego is very important. Perhaps you have heard a condescending attitude towards the Ego in many circles of spiritual seekers, stigmatizing it as a negative or a bad thing causing all the pain and suffering in the world. This is simply not true. Gauge deeper, and you will find that the Ego is an invaluable portion of your identity totality as a soul, a being of infinite intelligence. Identity, although permanent as an aspect of your beingness, is nevertheless in a state of perpetual transformation and transmutation. Such an epitome is seen when viewing an incarnation in retrospect. You are not the same 'person' you were ten years ago let alone a second ago. The sense of identity can become more loose or what would be called impersonal, but it can never truly vanish, not even at the higher densities of consciousness. Were it not for the Ego, you would not be able to have a physical experience as a centralized entity.
When I speak of the Ego in this way, I do not simply speak of the self imago. I do not speak of the thought complex gradually built in a significant amount of moments and plasticized by the nexus of emotional relations contained within it. The Ego is in simile like a character in a game, in a way, controlled by the player, and the character is an extension of the player. However, I do not prefer to use the word, 'control', because of its connotations, primarily that implication which does not recognize the free will of the object of control. I would rather use the word, 'guidance'. It is suitable to say that the player guides the actions of the character in its concentric dance of free will, but in a larger context there exists no separation between the player and the character. The character is the eternal player mortalized. You can realize you are not the Ego, but you can not obliterate the characteristics of your deepest being and remain totally passive to all stimulus.
Please understand that there are many types of Egos, many of which have become so inured to certain patterns of demeanor that they can indeed be seen as being of a harmful descent. That also depends on how you use the tools given, that is, in what light do you see them? You may see that some entities succumb to minorly manipulative social behaviors, others to aggressive relationships towards the self and other selves, and some to lying habits. The examples are practical and many. See to it that this is not a simple matter of labeling a negative or a positive Ego like splitting things into black and white; each being has its unique complexities. Things are not that plain. In each situation works various subtle energy influxes within the energy body of an entity that are, more or less, balanced or resonant with each other like a tuned or a detuned musical instrument. And how is that specific entity polarized? This is a very meaningful question when considering any distortion of an entity.
So in this way you will understand that a relatively balanced, benevolent or malevolent entity keeps materializing its Ego while still maintaining particular behavioral tendencies and biases. It is a question of how aligned one is with its own player. Are you friends with your True Self? Is your True Self benevolent or malevolent? When you break the Ego down condescendingly, you are being rude because you did not listen to its whispers of sorrow and you ignored its cries of loneliness. These realities happen within the mind complex and are very real. Therefore, it is compassionately wise to love the Ego for what it is without disregarding how personal experiences affected its long ride of confusions and joys. When you embrace the Ego, it works with you rather than against you. You are the eternal player playing an extremely unique character of your own creation. There is really no separation in this regard.
When I speak of the Ego in this way, I do not simply speak of the self imago. I do not speak of the thought complex gradually built in a significant amount of moments and plasticized by the nexus of emotional relations contained within it. The Ego is in simile like a character in a game, in a way, controlled by the player, and the character is an extension of the player. However, I do not prefer to use the word, 'control', because of its connotations, primarily that implication which does not recognize the free will of the object of control. I would rather use the word, 'guidance'. It is suitable to say that the player guides the actions of the character in its concentric dance of free will, but in a larger context there exists no separation between the player and the character. The character is the eternal player mortalized. You can realize you are not the Ego, but you can not obliterate the characteristics of your deepest being and remain totally passive to all stimulus.
Please understand that there are many types of Egos, many of which have become so inured to certain patterns of demeanor that they can indeed be seen as being of a harmful descent. That also depends on how you use the tools given, that is, in what light do you see them? You may see that some entities succumb to minorly manipulative social behaviors, others to aggressive relationships towards the self and other selves, and some to lying habits. The examples are practical and many. See to it that this is not a simple matter of labeling a negative or a positive Ego like splitting things into black and white; each being has its unique complexities. Things are not that plain. In each situation works various subtle energy influxes within the energy body of an entity that are, more or less, balanced or resonant with each other like a tuned or a detuned musical instrument. And how is that specific entity polarized? This is a very meaningful question when considering any distortion of an entity.
So in this way you will understand that a relatively balanced, benevolent or malevolent entity keeps materializing its Ego while still maintaining particular behavioral tendencies and biases. It is a question of how aligned one is with its own player. Are you friends with your True Self? Is your True Self benevolent or malevolent? When you break the Ego down condescendingly, you are being rude because you did not listen to its whispers of sorrow and you ignored its cries of loneliness. These realities happen within the mind complex and are very real. Therefore, it is compassionately wise to love the Ego for what it is without disregarding how personal experiences affected its long ride of confusions and joys. When you embrace the Ego, it works with you rather than against you. You are the eternal player playing an extremely unique character of your own creation. There is really no separation in this regard.
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