Ego is self awareness.
Ego has a stigma to it.
The real definition of Ego is what you (and the world) are calling the Soul.
It’s ok to call it a Soul but I will now explain why it might get complicated later on as you discover or aware of new parts of the self. The Soul can be detected by science, it is the aura around you. If it can be detected that means it is part of the physical world and therefore subject to change. Of course I struggled with this issue for a long time. I will now begin to explain the different parts, people usually think it’s one and the same, that the soul is us and also what gives life to the body. But now let us look deeper:
Ego has a stigma to it.
The real definition of Ego is what you (and the world) are calling the Soul.
It’s ok to call it a Soul but I will now explain why it might get complicated later on as you discover or aware of new parts of the self. The Soul can be detected by science, it is the aura around you. If it can be detected that means it is part of the physical world and therefore subject to change. Of course I struggled with this issue for a long time. I will now begin to explain the different parts, people usually think it’s one and the same, that the soul is us and also what gives life to the body. But now let us look deeper:
Soul animates everything in life: plants and animals, including humans, What sets the human apart from other life is our self-awareness and the uniqueness in character. That self awareness that comes with a character is the Ego which is NOT THE SAME DEFINITION as the Soul. Those are 2 different things and here is why:
The self-awareness has a character to it that are nonphysical so it cannot be seen and therefore is constant. If it is constant that means it governs the physical world (which CONSTANTLY changes), that means the self-awareness and character is who we are. Can you change your character?? We are each unique in character. Not one is the same from the other in character otherwise we would be robots! If we had to have the same character, we would also look exactly the same. But even our physical body is different from another, even a twin. Really observe this. So although there is a stigma when it comes down to that word ‘ego’, no apology needs to be made when it come to the truth, even if everyone is misplacing, misidentifying things, and labels and stigmas and so forth, that will not change how a truth should be explained. Truth shall be explained as it is – after all it is only fair for you and for me that we see it exactly how it is. So there is a Soul and an Ego. The Soul animates and gives life to the body, like it gives life to plants and animals. What sets us apart from plants and animals is the quality of us being self-aware and having a special character in this awareness. So there is a kind of vibrancy to this mysterious self-awareness, this urge within us, this determination, it is what gives you your intentions, it was what makes you decide, it is your motor, it is the part of you that swims and creates. The Ego is who you are, which is self-awareness.
The Illusion (or what people are mistakenly calling the ego I would like to be careful here so that no confusion happens since we are discussing different definitions of phenomena so bare with me) is you believing the thinking mind is you. We believe that a thought is 'WHO I am' instead of just a thought. We then believe emotions are 'WHO I am' because it reacts to the thought, instead of just an emotion. And then with no one to blame, we were conditioned to learn that thoughts and emotions are either 'bad for the I' or 'good for the I'. Everyone goes through this! NO ONE IS TO BLAME. Because we react to thoughts with emotions it starts a domino effect where we lose control of emotions. We are traumatized to learn something is bad within us, and that thoughts and emotions have control over us. And so we get CONFUSED. And then SCARED and we setup a warrior within our selves that acts as the self-defense system within our own mind, we begin to look at our thoughts, magnify them, we analyze them, and we now have to judge them out of Fear of what is now the 'good for the I' and what is not the 'bad for the I'. Then we pointed at others for being 'good' or 'bad'. We began to blame and deny or ourselves and expressed outwards towards others. Then we began to lie (which is neither a 'good' nor a 'bad', it's just a lie protecting, to keep you happy, no one is to blame as we feel have no choice to for self-preservation) in order to create a Story of our Selves, which acts as a self-defense system that guards our own Story, which we now have to keep up with. This then expresses itself outwards CAUSING us to now self-defend our Story from others. This is an internal causing the outward struggle -- Cause & Effect! Your thinking mind will LITERALLY create a reflection of the real you, the Lie, the No Thing, that serves to blame and deny the Self (so your Story can be at its happiest). This is simply an Illusion! So what we are doing is judging a thought which is just a thought and neither 'good for the I' nor 'bad for the I'. You begin to understand thoughts will say anything you would now have to judge (because you are taking it to be who you are) and the result is that you react to the thought with emotions and this is why we lose control of emotions. If we are not the arm not the heart not the leg not the kidney not the thought not the emotion we are NOT the thinking mind. The thinking mind is PERFECT. But when we believe we are the thinking mind instead of the Ego, the thinking mind will be forced to create a reflection of itself, which will conflict with the Ego when you believe you are the reflection. It is the complete ignorant side of us that serves to judge (it is 2-Dimensional, never the whole truth) and cannot see the true Essence, since reflection is NOT ALIVE and doesn't have an Essence. It can’t it is totally blind to it. Simply put it is not us. Why would the Ego be called an Illusion when you can just say it’s an Illusion? But it doesn't matter, the point is that there is a Soul, Ego, and Illusion. None have anything to do with the other, 3 separate things.
The Illusion is the story of who you think you are which began because of blame and denial, a lie of your Self, because we think there is a 'good I' and a 'bad I'.
This split is then expressed as a Reflection which begins to create a Story that we will have to keep up with in order to protect our happiness. So a Reflection will arise that will now be searching for the 'good for the I' and ‘bad for the I’ within you and now needs to keep up with the Story. We then look at our own thoughts and begin to analyze them as either 'Good f'or the I or 'Bad for the I' instead of just a thought. We then have an emotion that reacts to that thought out of the Judgment you gave it (which is either 'good for the I'; or 'bad for the I'. We then begin to believe emotions are 'WHO I am'. The Story continues to grow as it eventually takes full control over you. You will be believe who you are is your Story. You are automatically making choices according to the Story which will NOT ONLY look to either enhance it or deflate it, but having to self-defend it in order to KEEP THE STORY ALIVE. This gives rise to all afflictions.
By Cause & Effect, this is an internal struggle causing the outwards struggle which is:
Our behavior and actions are looking for the ‘bad’ and ‘good’ out in the world such as other people’s behavior or actions that either enhances or deflates our Story. We will also need to self-defend our Story from others in order to KEEP THE STORY ALIVE.
The Story is looking at you/judging you and the Reflection of the Story will look at others/judge others which will Cause the illusion of Separation. So we first separate with our own Self because of confusion, then we separate with others causing more confusion. We each fall in a dream-like state the stronger our connection to our Story is.
This is happening with every person. This is why there APPEARS to be Bad in this world. But in reality there are ONLY Bad Choices. In Absolute Reality there is only GOOD. The Story controls us and the World. We are in a dream-like state as long as we are in the World of the Story Glasses Plane. We must let go of our Story to cease separation with the Self and become whole again. We must return the separate back to the whole in order to cease confusion and return peace back into our lives. This is our INNOCENCE RETURNED.
We have on the Story Glasses which is a dream-like state, it will give rise to physical and mental perceptions that will literally blur our world; It will blur what is true and what is false. It has several reflections that you will need to remove in order to see Absolute Reality, the Looking Glass. Please read here to learn about The Story Glasses.
The Ego has no story it is does not require to be defined by a story, because you just ARE. So an illusion is an illusion NOT the ego. What the Buddhists call the ‘I’ for example is not the Ego. Even Jesus said to sacrifice the ‘I’. The ‘I’ is the illusion of the self -- the Story of the Self. Illusion is not your character as it is not alive. The Ego has the control and the body knows how each parts of it functions all by itself without our help except you need to give the body sleep and nourishment. So the split between Illusion and Ego is why we are not at peace 100% of the time. In film, The Never Ending Story calls this Illusion that has taken over the world “The Nothing”. In The Matrix, they are The Machines, because machines have no soul, they are not alive. When we do not have peace 100% of the time that means we have no control over thoughts and emotions. Emotions are still felt but they are understood as not who we are, i.e. "I FEEL sad" instead of "I AM sad"; just like the arm, "this is my arm" instead of "I am my arm". What we do now is choose the emotion with full control, you are the guide (as the Ego, which means it requires you to be in full awareness in order for this to happen, why full awareness? because the Ego is …. “self-aware”!). We choose the emotions and thoughts like the piano of the body, with total control, we do the guiding of the body (body includes the thinking mind) and this takes ZERO effort since we (Ego) are CONSTANT (unlike the thinking mind which uses plenty of effort since it is physical and therefore subject to change). The 'CONSTANT' phenomena is what we must be acquainted with because we are accustomed to using all kinds of efforts and accustomed to changing all the time. We are not the piano. How can a piano play itself?? Well that’s exactly what happens when you are connected to your thinking mind, which is the piano. Which is chaos. The hands (the Ego!) plays the piano, the Ego is the creative artist! We are like Beethoven.
As a child, we learn that there is a 'good for the I' -- which encourages praise; and 'bad for the 'I'', which encourages punishment. Then believing in 'good for the I' will earn praise and the ‘bad for the I’ will cause harm, we begin to lie in which we create a Story that we now have to keep up with in order to safeguard our happiness. We begin to separate the Self, causing a split. This disconnects us with all that is and we become confused. This is INNOCENCE LOST.
This split is then expressed as a Reflection which begins to create a Story that we will have to keep up with in order to protect our happiness. So a Reflection will arise that will now be searching for the 'good for the I' and ‘bad for the I’ within you and now needs to keep up with the Story. We then look at our own thoughts and begin to analyze them as either 'Good f'or the I or 'Bad for the I' instead of just a thought. We then have an emotion that reacts to that thought out of the Judgment you gave it (which is either 'good for the I'; or 'bad for the I'. We then begin to believe emotions are 'WHO I am'. The Story continues to grow as it eventually takes full control over you. You will be believe who you are is your Story. You are automatically making choices according to the Story which will NOT ONLY look to either enhance it or deflate it, but having to self-defend it in order to KEEP THE STORY ALIVE. This gives rise to all afflictions.
By Cause & Effect, this is an internal struggle causing the outwards struggle which is:
Our behavior and actions are looking for the ‘bad’ and ‘good’ out in the world such as other people’s behavior or actions that either enhances or deflates our Story. We will also need to self-defend our Story from others in order to KEEP THE STORY ALIVE.
The Story is looking at you/judging you and the Reflection of the Story will look at others/judge others which will Cause the illusion of Separation. So we first separate with our own Self because of confusion, then we separate with others causing more confusion. We each fall in a dream-like state the stronger our connection to our Story is.
This is happening with every person. This is why there APPEARS to be Bad in this world. But in reality there are ONLY Bad Choices. In Absolute Reality there is only GOOD. The Story controls us and the World. We are in a dream-like state as long as we are in the World of the Story Glasses Plane. We must let go of our Story to cease separation with the Self and become whole again. We must return the separate back to the whole in order to cease confusion and return peace back into our lives. This is our INNOCENCE RETURNED.
We have on the Story Glasses which is a dream-like state, it will give rise to physical and mental perceptions that will literally blur our world; It will blur what is true and what is false. It has several reflections that you will need to remove in order to see Absolute Reality, the Looking Glass. Please read here to learn about The Story Glasses.
The Ego has no story it is does not require to be defined by a story, because you just ARE. So an illusion is an illusion NOT the ego. What the Buddhists call the ‘I’ for example is not the Ego. Even Jesus said to sacrifice the ‘I’. The ‘I’ is the illusion of the self -- the Story of the Self. Illusion is not your character as it is not alive. The Ego has the control and the body knows how each parts of it functions all by itself without our help except you need to give the body sleep and nourishment. So the split between Illusion and Ego is why we are not at peace 100% of the time. In film, The Never Ending Story calls this Illusion that has taken over the world “The Nothing”. In The Matrix, they are The Machines, because machines have no soul, they are not alive. When we do not have peace 100% of the time that means we have no control over thoughts and emotions. Emotions are still felt but they are understood as not who we are, i.e. "I FEEL sad" instead of "I AM sad"; just like the arm, "this is my arm" instead of "I am my arm". What we do now is choose the emotion with full control, you are the guide (as the Ego, which means it requires you to be in full awareness in order for this to happen, why full awareness? because the Ego is …. “self-aware”!). We choose the emotions and thoughts like the piano of the body, with total control, we do the guiding of the body (body includes the thinking mind) and this takes ZERO effort since we (Ego) are CONSTANT (unlike the thinking mind which uses plenty of effort since it is physical and therefore subject to change). The 'CONSTANT' phenomena is what we must be acquainted with because we are accustomed to using all kinds of efforts and accustomed to changing all the time. We are not the piano. How can a piano play itself?? Well that’s exactly what happens when you are connected to your thinking mind, which is the piano. Which is chaos. The hands (the Ego!) plays the piano, the Ego is the creative artist! We are like Beethoven.
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