Killing Of The Ego Paradox

[Revolutionary Think]

What do you guys think about the points he brings up?

[Prabhaker]

7 hours ago, Revolutionary Think said:

Killing Of The Ego Paradox

All that is true is always paradoxical. If truth is not paradoxical then it is not truth at all, then it is something else.

The ego is just all idea: it has no substance in it. It is not something – it is just pure nothing. You give it reality by believing in it. 

The ego is a kind of absence. Because you don’t know yourself, hence the ego. The moment you know yourself, no ego is found. The ego is like darkness; darkness has no positive existence of its own; it is simply the absence of light. You cannot fight with darkness, or can you? You cannot throw darkness out of the room; you cannot take it out, you cannot take it in. You cannot do anything with darkness directly. If you want to do anything with darkness, you will have to do something with light. If you put the light on, there is no darkness; if you put the light off, there is darkness.

Darkness is only the absence of light, so is ego: absence of self-knowledge. You cannot kill it. And if you try to kill it, something which is not there in the first place at all, you will be creating a new ego – the ego of the humble, the ego of the egoless, the ego of the person who thinks he has killed his ego. It will be a new kind of darkness again.

Be alert, watchful. Watch the ways of the ego, how it functions, how it manages at all. And you will be surprised: the deeper you go into it, the less it is found.