The Death of the Ego (Excerpt)
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- Опубліковано 30 лип 2021
- adyashanti.org - Prior to the experience of unity consciousness, people often undergo a transitional process which is sometimes referred to as an “ego death.” In this informative talk, Adyashanti offers a clarification of the term “ego”, and a comprehensive understanding of what can happen as your identification with ego begins to fall away.
Excerpted from April 14, 2021 Online Broadcast, “The Way of Effortless Effort”:
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Quotes from this Video:
“Ego isn't an entity. There's not an actual thing called an ‘ego.’”
“We get all these ideas about what ego death is right up until ego death happens.”
“Ego death is just the transitioning from one perspective-ego perspective-to the unity perspective.”
“Experiences of ego death are very, very different from one to the next.”
Ego even tries to attach itself to the process of awakening
yeah my ego death was horrifying. severe panic attacks, tachycardia, depersonalisation, thought i was going absolutely mad. it happened just after i got sober from drug addiction, so i thought i had destroyed my brain forever. i actually think the drug cravings made it 10 times worse
I think your right about that. But hey, props to you sir. Addiction is never easy. Nice work brother.
I’m absolutely convinced that you are telling the truth my friend just don’t ask me how I know! It’s just so obvious to me.
the ego dies when we stop complaining about every thing.
Compassion is the only thing that kills the ego, anything else is self-absorbed McSpirituality.
Actually the consensus seems to be that "Letting Go" is the technology to deal with this. Ur prolly not in the loop
@@Koryogden
"consensus' - group-think
'you're not in the loop' = big fat ego who needs to feel like part of an important in-group to give them a sense of self-worth.
That's attitude is the opposite of 'letting-go'.
McSpirituality is for people with big egos. 'the death of the ego' is McSpiritual jargon for 'I have a big fat ego'.
Compassion is the only thing that kills the ego.
No I saw through it by letting go and being brave…compassion for an illusion is still a bit deluded
@@princesskenyetta4745 this is a wonderful comment. Thank you very much!
@@princesskenyetta4745 Rastafari is tha stuff. Nevermind the ego, just have yourself a lamb's bread and pick up a coptic bible.
The unity experience is the ultimate experience of the whole
My sense of the ego is that it is ultimately a gift: a teacher that serves to help stir us awake.
I experienced ego death last month after being in a happily married relationship for 13 years.
I am 35 and recently found that the romantic love I felt for my wife was just one sided. The personality I had was long lost But i rediscovered it and it changed my perceptive for everything surrounding me and even my opinions and convictions.
I feel free and happy.
Yes indeed. The “ego” is too often referred to as if it is an entity outside ourselves. When I was a Christian, “the devil” was the thing we pointed to. In spiritual awakening communities “the ego” gets pointed to.... so much that it has become “the devil” of spiritual awakening.
In reality, it is just a label we humans made up. And we make it mean a whole lot as well. Meanings were all made up to describe one experience or another. One perspective or another.
Thank you for clarifying we are all simply just shifting perspectives in a variety of different ways. 🙏🏼💙
The ego indeéd is the devil, as the Devil himself was cruisified at the cross of Jesus: Col 2:15 🌾 Like the sin of the world, he is NO more. After the cross the name "satan" became a verb, a doing word. The carnal mind today is the devil (again, not a person, but by acting out of a hostile nature - an eye for an eye eyc). The natural man living from his thoughts that are alianated due to the fall of Adam, the flesh.. that is the devil. 😱😎
I believe this happened to me- I used to live in a fear based way, identifying as mentally ill…. I had such a spiritual awakening upon my 40th birthday(a few short months ago).…I had been through a lot of torture and torment throughout my life. I had tried suicide several times only to wake up to the same Hellscape I created. I lost both my dad and my older brother within a couple of short years of each other. Quite recently. My extended family had always been hurtful and took petty jabs at me; assuming I had done nothing with my life, when in essence they never knew me at all. I saw my life path as ton of learning experiences: to accept and let go. I no longer have any fear, only faith. And a deep sense of self love, confidence and many other wonderful attributes about myself. I believe I am a star seed. Sent here for a purpose. But I’m still learning about this new way of life and it so awesome! I love life and thank God every single day that I am here for another. 💓
Peace, love and blessings to you and everyone ❤️🙏☮️🙏❤️
Thank you for sharing Julie. I hope you're still doing well, building on that awareness!
Love this guy. Chucking about surprising himself that he was willing to die for the insights he was after and really feeing as though he was dying. Such an ordinary and supraordinary, lovely man.
Love you man, you helped me remember my essence. When I stopped looking it ran right into me. Now you, me, my, seem so ridiculous. Peace brother, keep on keepin on!
I've been going through ego death, and while it took a TREMENDOUS amount of pain to get myself here, the actual ego death is like a pain reliever. The new perspective / awareness is such a welcomed liberation. I found Adyashanti's videos in the beginning of my awakening experience a couple months ago, out of complete desperation. I literally typed in a UA-cam search "how to let go of fear". The first video that popped up was Adyashanti's "Letting Go Of Fear". I've never had such a distinct gift from the universe as that. I've listened to it on repeat, along with all the Adyashanti videos I can find. I've never had anything or any teacher speak to me more in my life. From the bottom of my heart, thank you.
I’m having been going through ego death since March. The most painful time of my life. I’m just now beginning to see a light of transcendent but have a ways to go. Currently I’m working on healing/dissolving my fear. Not an easy feat but I’m in it and can’t turn back. The pain is the loss of what I strongly identified (ego) with and this identification was shattered.
@Darren I’m only a seeker of the wisdom teachers. No new age here. Jesus is the way but today there are speakers who share the wisdom but in a contemporary relatable way that speaks to the heart.
Similar - I discovered Adyashanti by searching for teaching on losing self, because of the anxiety and fear that was arising. Now I understand better, I'd say "losing identification with the egoic self". The ego doesn't die but will stop when we do.
@EndofMusic It kind of depends on how tightly identified with egoic self-concepts we are. It genuinely feels terrifyingly like dying, or can do. Dr Angelo Dilullo suggests that some people experience an epinephrine response when first experiencing unbounded consciousness, similar to that "falling off a cliff" feeling that jerks people awake. It wears off or we habituate to it as we relax into the perceptual shift of identity. When Adya talks about his first shift, he describes his physiological response in a way that sounds very similar to getting a massive epi-pen shot!
@Darren I really like your style of writing and the fire inside. Love it actually. I don't agree with all of it, maybe because the order of how it happened was just the other way around for me. But is that important? I really don't know, probably not.
I went to Jesus first and a few years later Kundalini worked its way up. (The years between were joyful/painful. Will never know if I could've pushed so hard in life without faith.) When Kundalini started, it was actually painful, at first I thought it's a stroke. But I couldn't think straight so whatever, but honestly a bit of Yoga training beforehand to ready my body for it, would've been helpful as I was seriously cramped up when it happened. So when I think about all of it, I mean all the teachings, it's probably all helpful. Even doing yoga as a sport which sounds ridiculous, but the physiological side of the experience is seldom spoken of. (Maybe I was just so far off when I started, it had to hold me in place to do it.) Or take Islam or Judaism, I agree with the idea of a scale and Jesus definitely helped me load up and tip the scale.
Today I believe that Jesus opened my heart (Corinth) and told Kundalini to "Finish him!!" and it crushed my ego (for a while). Like a tag team. I also think that kundalini rising is the same as the holy spirit coming down on ya. But this is just the result of my "omg I get everything"-research after it happened. Who actually cares. I mean maybe we should care, because we could build on the idea of all religions talking about the same thing. (That's an original thought -.-) Which is also really obvious, like animals of one kind doing the same stuff on different parts of the earth. Yea I know it's evolution, but there's this saying in Germany, "beavers build dams, no matter where." Yea we should unite, but we also already are, so what's the point? (lol where am I going with this?)
Big question: If Jesus hadn't shown me the way, could the Kundalini have passed my heart? I don't know. I'm biased, because this was the order for me. But do I think, this order is the right and only one? I kinda do (xD) but this cannot be true for everybody. That's stupid. I mean, we all have different identitites to start off with, right? And "Cake tastes great no matter how you eat it", don't you agree? (If somebody knows whose quote this is, pls help. I thought it's Maharshi's, but I cannot find it.) Maybe you start with the cherry on top, maybe you get into the cream first. Top-down, bottom-up, who cares right? It's delicious. (Not talking about how you put that in your body btw, don't go bottom up. Would be a waste. And pls don't say other religions wanna eat the cake with their butt, they just don't, ok. But there's probably a werid cult somewhere, where they're convinced that bottomup cakes is actually the only way to do it. And it will probably work, too. I mean if you do it often enough, maybe one day, you'll stop and realize "hey man, we ARE the cake!")
The problems in society you see, I see them too. And sometimes I want to to change it, too. But could I've gone this way without looking at them being another way? I don't know man, I mean, I was just like them before. So why shouldn't they also come here on their own, you know? I cannot make them listen to Adya. Or to Jesus even. I feel like they just gotta do/finish their thing, but what if you cannot do anything about it, because it's all okay. It's so stupid that power corrupts, what a downer. Hey, I had a lot of fun writing this. Love you all. One love.
When I was having my ego death I was trying not to forget who I was and holding as much as I could not let go and it was scary experiences going through the whole experience thinking about everything I had and how I was going leave it but then I just let myself go and accepted everything and if I was going forget it was okay and from there I felt this euphoria and I didn’t understand the concept of time nor anything else; completely forget everything about me in that moment but the fact that I was completely aware and present that I was there at that very moment, i felt no emotion I wasn’t sad,mad, scared, happy but it was so peaceful one of the best experiences I’ve ever felt thus far in my life
Blessings! Thank you for this. 🙏
Yes, trying not to forget who you are is the hardest, I'm going through it right now
You can't kill ego. Who is killing who? Ego is the thought "I". Ego's biggest sin is Pride in proclaiming to be the entirety of self. It's like the 1/3 of the iceberg denying or ignoring the hidden 2/3. Ego needs to acknowledge its limitations. In the old school, it was called Humility. What you know, and what you think you know is not the same.
Ego is killed at the cross of Jesus, the flesh, the sinful nature.. hostile and only focused on "me, myself and i". Col 2:12-15 😱 The cross-events took place inside of us, in our skull, that's where the awakening starts.. Gal 2:20 "i" no longer live, but Christ is living in and thru me". Blessings!
@@eekay5710 Thy Will Be Done
Know thyself 💕🔑☮️
Ego death is the most painful experience i hv ever had, even after having painful trauma. I lost the will to live n drowned in an abyss of sorrow I cannot even explain. It lasted for months, i felt completely lost and homeless in my soul
did it pass when you got on the other side of it?
For me my experience didn't involve a big dramatic ego death. I had an enlightenment experience and after that i had a perspective change from ego to consciousness back and forwards for a few months. Now nearly a year on i still go back and forwards a little but i more and more am aligned with a unity perspective. My ego has gotten quieter and quieter as time has gone by
Great stuff David. This sounds clear to me. Waving hello.
Is that because of the constant "seeing" over time, that you are not the thoughts appearing? That you are "your" voice in your head? Right now I have regular moments where I see clearly, the illusion that I'm thinking. No. Thinking IS JUST HAPPENING. Yet very soon, I forget or the feeling goes away and I'm identified with thought. I am the thinker.
@@caseyanderson2345
Ist much simpler than that, you are the thinker and you are the observer , you are the dance of life you are the life it self. You are everything
My “ego” isn’t so much afraid as much as it is throwing a huge pouting fit. It’s more angry and rabbid at this point.
How did you awaken? I read The Power of Now.
I wouldn’t say that I’ve had a final awakening. My path is not complete. I’ve had a few ego shattering experiences and various glimpses beyond the veil, but the day to day is a slow and hectic/chaotic Kundalini energy unfoldment, which has lasted for years and is still ongoing.
The Power of Now was what started it all for me, however, all the way back in 2007.
Hahahahah
@@zamoraobed The Power of Now.. an éxcellent book! Follow Mooji, Aaron Abke and other on Awakening or simply read John in the Bible.
@@camilledibenedetto6896 Hahaha 🤔
Once the ego knows your on to it, it becomes almost vicious!
If it's not coming from a place of love - it's coming from the ego. T - IS IT TRUE? H - IS IT HELPFUL? I - IS IT INSPIRING? N - IS IT NECESSARY? K - IS IT KIND?
Think - Qualifiers that help me, every minute of everyday day 🙏❤✨
EDGING GOD OUT 😏
You definitely feel the ego die post alcoholism.
I am not my name and I am not an alcoholic.
Yes bro alcohol pushes you away from yourself.
Agree. Your name is not who you are, as you are not in your body or in your thoughts. You are in Christ and He sees you holy and perfect in His sight, regardless any mistakes or shortcomings you expierence in this life. Blessings!
😂 lol, that’s what I’ll say During introductions next time I’m in a meeting :-)
I've long believed that death is all about letting go of the ego, which is why we find it so confronting.
Every night when we go to sleep, we practice 'dying', because we lose our consciousness, which is what dying is, only it's permanent.
The thing is that we never actually experience 'losing consciousness', because we are NOT conscious when it happens.
Death is exactly the same, but we fear it because it means losing our ego, our individuality, and all that pertains.
my personal experience, which might be completely different from others, is that the term "ego death" did not in any way work for me. I only saw that I am not separate from anything or anyone. simple. I was still me, but this "me" was not as concrete as my connection was with everything,.... but I was still me, just not a serious me. funny stuff.
Ego death seems illogical either way even if we are just discussing semantics. We still have an ego, a persona, layers and layers, even after an awakening happens, though we keep shedding the layers throughout life. I see it as just going through a change in consciousness, learning to control our childlike impulses, discarding unrealistic stances, understanding and hopefully accepting ourselves and the external forces more etc. I like the last part you wrote. I don't take myself as serious as I did and have found a great relief and serenity in that. Cheers.
You see right if you see that we are one with another, but then only in Christ. The "me, myself and i" is the enemy, the ego, the flesh, the carnal mind.. and thát was what Jesus cruicified at the cross!! Gal 2:20 now gives insight of who you really are.
full ego death is a scary thing, not sure thats how I want to exist... partial is good though... maybe level 2 or 3 enlightenment (of 4)
Thank you Adyashanti, you are so clear it is so clear to see. Once you see it there is nothing to be afraid, beneath the ego we are so beatiful
Thank you for this great explanation. This makes it much more understandable...
I am loving this. I am now loving the glimpse practices from Loch Kelly who Adya asked to teach for him when he took time off and they compliment each other. Adya gives amazing talks and Loch gives the simple practices to experience it. Life changing! Thanks to both!
omg Adya keeps getting better!
so grateful for your talking and sharing Adya, thank you
Thank you, Adya. 🙂🙂🙂
Thank you 🙏 namaste
Thank You
Thank you!!!!
Beautiful
A leaf doesn't need to stop existing in order to be a part of a tree.
beautiful words thank you
Ego is just a temporary shell. It seems that it’s just there to allow the Self to mature to the point where the shell spontanously breaks and the true nature of the Self is revealed to it-Self.
Ego is an odd term that itself needs to die. All there is is being and becoming. Ego is simply a point of awareness. Awareness doesn't change. It is the aperture of the body/mind that either widens or narrows and dissolves with time. Dissolution is indigenous to all creation. Fear of dissolution is the central narrative driving individuals, societies, and economies. Fear is ego. Fear needs to die. What is the weapon? In a word, love.
Another teaching I felt a little lighter after hearing. Namaste : )
Perfect timing, thank you.
It's deeply reassuring, when you're sensing this, to hear it's a common experience!
@@jacquin8511 absolutely. ❤
@@josephoutward I've no need to. You're a diamond splinter of the divine whole - be what you are and believe what you like. The infinity needs you to express itself, so whatever you believe yourself to be is fine by me :)
Self-illusion or thinking is like a transparent curtain that adds an extra layer of information to our vision, we see our thoughts but they do not exist in front of us! This is the human ability to see things that do not exist! The problem that occurs in humans is that, when the nervous system contracts, the thinking process automatically begins to think! And because most people have more or less nervous system contractions, they have this extra thought! And in the long run, these thoughts almost become an additional operating system, and it makes its own decisions! If the nervous system relaxes, this process of extra thought will automatically stop and the new human being can see the world as it is without disturbing the mind! After that, it can be understood that creation is predetermined from the beginning to the end day! As consciousness we only understand the life story, and the rest is out of our control!
Yup the experience happened a year ago...it wasn't subtle either it was spontaneous and still going through it... experienced a moment of out of my body what I would call the very beginning of the universe...the totality of every and absolutely nothing at the same time
We need ego for survival purposes, both bodily and psychological, practicing denying ego succesively we can end up in depersonalisation and compromised immune system (survival of our dear bodies).
Finally it came
Thank you ❣️
Thank you Adya. I am in the middle of this now and it is sooo difficult and disconcerting!! I don't know what's going on anymore.
Thank you, just made a video about this ... I like how you explained this
Thank you 👃💚🔱
thank you
⚖️ Life is just not worth it to just be pretending. I call this "The Point of No Return"🦋 I was also ready to do or die. Who are we REALLY? You keep asking me. 🌈🪶🎶 Grace V 🌅
I had panic attack i guess is ego death i dont like to call it panic attack because I experienced death due too heavy emotions sadnesses anger and fear because i was scapegoat of the family.! I was somehow in denial and just tried to ignore and please but after the awakening i felt so angry on my narcissistic father and what he did to me. Because i used to have c-ptsd. But now almost gone i feel secure safe and even my inner child feels more safe and loved by me i was feeling like a trapped child after ego death i feel strong grown and courageous.
YOU ARE MY MAN MATE
I dont want to kill my ego.. I need my ego.. I need him to work for me and not the other way around as it is today..
Who is the ‘me’ though if it’s separate to your ego?
@@gavinduggan199 Hard to explain but the one who observes..
@@Jole30 the “one who observes” is also to be seen through ;)
@@grantsachs Maybe i am stupid but i dont really get the point..
@@Jole30 just that the identification with awareness is also just another illusory identity
Ultimately any notion of self is to be transcended
Thank you 😊
Exactly!
Lovely
It happened to me when I was 19yo the first time and 23yo the second one, just for few minutes. The first time I was totally ignorant about awakening, ego etc. and it totally changed my self and my life.
It happened during the night, the experience was short and beautiful, the most sweet and lovely experience of my life. The day before I was another person and my parents couldn't recognize me anymore.
A lot of things have changed since that day, a lot of knowledge arrived to me when I needed and many other beautiful things, together with a lot of terrible adversities that devasted my life and part of my ego. I know I had to live those experiences to become as I am right know, more mature and strong, maybe, but I still feel like a person now, a seeker, an addicted to that wonderful feeling even if I know it's just an illusion and that "I" doesn't exists.
I feel in a vicious circle and I can't escape from and the only thing I can do is to accept this life, but it's not easy when you have nothing but suffering since the day you are born.
It's a bad thing to say I know, but I feel I was better in my suffering before awakening, because I didn't know how good it feels to live without suffering.
Thank you for what you do Mr. Adyashanti 🙏 it helps me in difficult moments.
Some sages say that there are people like you who realized this momentary bliss. Now that you have seen what was on the other side of the fence, you know that there is greener grass and that it is possible to access it. One of the things that comes up in the teachings of the East (Buddhism, Taoism, Advaita Vedanta and Yoga) is that the mind must not be in a spirit of seeking because it cannot awaken if it look for. He must be in content and in the present moment. It is very difficult and I would like one day to realize that I will be able to see this other side of the fence too. How was it?
@@MissRomanticKitty Exactly, the problem is that. My mind and hearth can't be content in the present moment, because I've always had a terrible life and it is getting worst. After experiencing those shorts awakenings, my mind is addicted to that Bliss and can't focus to the present. It was a wonderful experience. If you have Slowly app we can talk there in private, it's a long story. My Slowly ID is: KW0BEZ
Since who was born?
@@AndressaSaporski I was talking about my self
Self-illusion or thinking is like a transparent curtain that adds an extra layer of information to our vision, we see our thoughts but they do not exist in front of us! This is the human ability to see things that do not exist! The problem that occurs in humans is that, when the nervous system contracts, the thinking process automatically begins to think! And because most people have more or less nervous system contractions, they have this extra thought! And in the long run, these thoughts almost become an additional operating system, and it makes its own decisions! If the nervous system relaxes, this process of extra thought will automatically stop and the new human being can see the world as it is without disturbing the mind! After that, it can be understood that creation is predetermined from the beginning to the end day! As consciousness we only understand the life story, and the rest is out of our control!
Ego death is sheer panic. The first times. Later on I've happened to realize that what mind feels like a precipice is in fact the step to fly. Now, when I feel subtle fear and know that further surrender is needed, I almost enjoy the step, because I know that's the filght. Not grasping a thing, nothing at all, to float in Being is awesome. Of course challenges are frequent, and loads of stuff still emerges from subcosnscious: in that case overcoming fear takes a while. But that very step, my friends, that very step the ego was stopping on the verge of itself... that is the beginning of the Real.
But in spite of these transformations, there is still a ‘You’ isn’t there? So much spirituality seems to argue that we almost don’t even really exist and I can’t get my head around that, it brings me pain. The whole no self thing, I don’t get it. I mean who is Adya, the being speaking to us, if not a self? Can you help
@@gavinduggan199 I happened to experience no self, and it is awesome! The difference is that when ego subsides it's like your identity shifts from ego to self, being, call it as you wish: it is the background, the space that is witnessing all which emerges. When everything is perceived as Life happening, watched as the open consciousness watches but "you" happen as well, your centre is not inside you, but there is no centre at all, no witness, just life, that is no self. Notice that we are multidimensional beings, each of the apparent us is a field of consciousness: so consciousness happens to shift from one dimension to another. When it perceives the field as subjct, then it is self. When it perceives itself from contraction believing it's an identity, then it is ego. When it perceives itself as a whole, not a field, then there is no main character, but just many appearences that emerge.
@@bhaktimaddalena-nakedlife Thank you, is that what Adya means why he talks about the jewel of enlightenment and states that we are a paradox, everything and nothing, nobody and yet someone?
@@gavinduggan199 as a matter of fact enlightment is becoming One with the Absolute in perpetual trascendental state and bliss. I have asked myself many questions around this stuff and I've come to the conclusion there is an Absolute, unmanifested God, that flows into Life and forms. Everything is ultimately divine because nothing can ever exist outside consciousness, but this consciousness as I said is multidimensional (you know you can have higher or lower vibes, don't you?): so the worst scenario is being contracted in ego, that means fear and separation. It is said to be an illusion because it believes itslef to be an entity, whereas it is just a density of consciousness. Then you can open up beyond ego to self, that is pure being, free and with no personal filters. The "I" is not ego anymore but self, yet it is the "excuse" consciousness uses to explore itself: that's why there can be a perception with no self. This experiences do not imply divinity, yet you experience that with no separation and no ego, what is left is peace and even love (isn't this great?). Others feel the whole thing more with a divine look and feel even literally pulled to welcome God completely, so that identity shifts toward divinity, up to complete merge (saints, yogis). All in all, anyway, it's always One consciousness exploring and loving itself.
@@bhaktimaddalena-nakedlife Thank you for your time and insight. Much appreciated. I had an awakening from ego experience a few months ago following years of spiritual seeking and it initially really scared me. Although in retrospective, it was quite beautiful really and I now understand getting beyond ego. My problem is that I’m still stuck very much in the thinking mind and trying to conceptualise everything and make it all fit (really doesn’t help that I suffer with OCD which can turn these attempts to conceptualise into actual torture). I just need to let go but I find myself repeatedly going into old patterns.
I just went through the most difficult time of my life, I wanted to cease to exist,now to perceive existence as the whole
If u want to actually do the Ego Death challenge : you are gonna want to do the Death-Release Meditation (like contemplation of your death and what u would say to each person and process everything u need to , to die now, cuz this is your egos death)
Prolly takes a good hour minimum of lying in deep contemplation, the practice is everything ... U get out, what u put in
Dark night of the soul maybe ego death. Every time it's more harder but you are prepared to come out of it quicker.
I had an ego death during an enlightenment experience over the course of several days. Thought I was physically going to die and prepared for death. Literally felt like my body was dying, becoming fragile, weak. I left death notes, wills, etc. Was a bit scary to say the least...
So you got through it?
@@Mantras-and-Mystics yeah man
I still see Adya's 2001 satsangs
I think I experience that last night I was like I’m going insane. At one point I was like I’m dying really hard to explain.
Now I feel like you are me I am you we are eachother your over there I'm over here yet we are everywhere in ALL THINGS
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I want to.
But there's a lot of fear.
Yes, it makes sense.. The problem arises when i am totally identified with the ego... When the ego is not a "it" but it's actually ME, MYSELF... : I'm me! How can I not be me!? 😅
That's the whole problem...
We can't accept the fact that we are not it....
How can I call it "IT" when in fact it's "ME". That's the question!
So, how can i see myself (the one that is in pain, that likes, that dislikes, that is attracted or repelled, that believes...) as "not myself"?! If I feel headache , how can I be aware that this headache is not mine... How can I not be touched psychologically by this headache?! How can I not feel bad about it!? How can I be totally at peace with this this headache in such a way in which, it is not troublesome anymore? ...
HOW CAN I "NOT BE TOUCHED" BY something terrible that is happening to me or to my body... A tellible pain for example or a terrible urge, or need...
How can I not be touched by my own anger? Or by my own feelings?!
The only moment in which I felt real peace, was when I felt a terrible need, but I somehow was at peace with that need, I wasn't controlled or pulled around by this need at all... It's as if I was in hell but I wasn't burned by the flames which were all ove me and around me... That's the only way I can describe it!
And yet, I can't experience this anymore... How is it possible? How can I experience this again...?
Hey how long can an ego death last? This is just horrifying at the moment…
If you completely surrender to it, it will not last that long. 😊
Every Gift and Talent given to mankind must be use to serve the purpose of the Light. Illuminati uplift the works of men. it gives fame, riches, wealth, power and supernatural protection that opens the flood gate of all round blessings
Illuminati means darkness of deception, from first conception it was written as a trojan horse the same as marxism. Human bondage is psychological, not material.
I never wanted this or desired it
The dark night of the soul...
Sometimes a night sometimes years and years...
I got confused because im fighting with a shadow which i thout is the ego entity that gets me in trouble everywhere i go ...and its a phantom entity that boders me so much and it makes my life a living hell ...yet some of these ppl seem completely blind to it ....am i the only one dealing with this...and that ego entity might even be the writing this msg..idk ....im so chaoticly confused
Its a total different nuance to self referencing - eg - Pass me(nuance this location as it changes) the salt as it passes. Perhaps better to use other words to avoid fixating, For practical purposes we have these confusing words. People say what about accountabilty, well if correct we can designate passing reponsiblity as a part of what happened in a mistake without going into phoney self identified moral biggotry. Unless it is a life threatening injury we don't have to be defined by our passing mistakes and maybe able to find redemption or correction.
There is no ego.
That's an illusion
Adyashanti has way too many words to explain the shift. “Freedom from Identification with Your Mind”. Words to explain keeps one in the ego mode. Be it.!
there is no death of ego.