The ego is as the ego does

For most people, it’s the ego that’s their most potent nemissis.  This is because we actually believe that inner voice, that inner dialogue, that chatter.  But, while the ego is part of who we are (and, therefore, we must always show it nothing but love), it can inhilate those who don’t have it on a tight leash.

The first step to knowing your ego is to train yourself to recognize its voice.  And  you know its voice quite well.  For many, it has become their very identity.  They believe in that voice, believe that the voice in their head is their “gut instinct.”  But it isn’t.  If it’s language, it’s ego.  Truth is beyond language; language is far too limited for Truth.  Language is the flesh and bones of the ego.

The second step is to trust what you experience of Truth – some call this faith, but don’t confuse a text (which is language) with Truth.  Truth won’t speak to you.  Truth is perceived, it communicates non-locally and, therefore, transcends language.  Defies it, even.  Truth is far too powerful for language, for thought.  Truth isn’t understood, it isn’t thought.  Thought is language.  And language is ego.  As I’ve said, the ego must be loved.  But, for most of us, it’s the “tough” brand of love that’s necessary.  But the ego will eventually come to not only accept the leash but, eventually, to rely on it.  This is balance.

The third and final step is to realize that the there is no end to this process.  Enlightenment (if that’s what you want to call it) isn’t some mystical explosion of universal energy that transports one to the heights and depths of divination but rather, it’s organic, precise, relivent, immediate, subtle.  It’s the opening of a flower, the roll of a wave, the heat of the sun.  It’s in the moment, so to speak.  It exists only in the now, in the present.  The past and the future do not exist.  The past and the future are language.  And language is ego.  To live in the “now” frightens the ego; it finds its comfort in the past or in the future.  By harnessing (or “training”) the ego, you will eventually live in the now.  This is balance.  This is Truth.

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