Demand your friends and relatives to treat you like stranger!

[MarkusSweden]

First of all, what is EGO? 

EGO is a though. You can't say it's nothing, but it is no real entity. Just a thought! 

But even a though can reduce you. You probably have a though right now of who you are. That is ego. 

Ask yourself, "Who am I?" Did any though come up? If it did, which it probably did, that's your ego.

In rare cases, there comes no thought, complete blank when you face the question, that is what we strive after, that's what enlightenment is. Because what are you without a thought of yourself? Nothing! You see, a thought, that's all there is to ego. 

But even if you are free of thoughts of who you are, others can have thoughts of who you are, and they probably have if they know "you". And it's impossible not to pick up some content of that. Therefore your friends and family can force and project an ego upon you. 

Tell all you know that they must treat you as a complete stranger every time you meet each other if they want to stay in your life. Otherwise they must go. 

And I mean this in a radical way, not only absence of thoughts regarding personality, but no thoughts what so ever about your body mind. No idea of how old you are, no idea of your name or birthday. Your ego is your whole life, every aspect of your body mind, all of it, which are just thoughts. Thoughts you don't need to suffer from carrying around yourself or having projected upon you from others, from your friends and family that is.

If they can't treat you like this, if they don't meet your needs, they don't deserve to be your friends. 

You have the right to be a stranger every single second of your life. To be unpersonal infinite consciousness. Complete free and creative, constantly residing in the NOW. 

Don't let those who "know" "you" reduce you! Even positive thoughts of you reduce you, since that is equally as much ego as negative ones. Demand no thoughts of you. 

Namaste. *two hands together*

Edited May 11, 2018 by MarkusSweden

[YaNanNallari]

Not that I'm going to tell anyone to do this for now, but this is actually very good and refreshing advice to feel strong enough to not live up to the previous image you gave other people. Sure they might think you're weird but otherwise you can't be yourself all the time.

[MarkusSweden]

4 minutes ago, YaNanNallari said:

this is actually very good and refreshing advice.

otherwise you can't be yourself all the time.

Thank you stranger for reading and responding!

You got it!

Namaste

[Truth]

38 minutes ago, MarkusSweden said:

Tell all you know that they must treat you as a complete stranger every time you meet each other if they want to stay in your life. Otherwise they must go. 

 

39 minutes ago, MarkusSweden said:

If they can't treat you like this, if they don't meet your needs, they don't deserve to be your friends. 

Just sounds like an ego waiting to be loved and pushing people away who can't give it what it needs to give itself. 

[Torkys]

@Truth

This ?? 

You do not make it OK to others project on you which is in itself a projection of your needs onto others. This is completely understandable though. You want love and you deserve it. 

[MarkusSweden]

17 minutes ago, Torkys said:

@Truth

This ?? 

You do not make it OK to others project on you which is in itself a projection of your needs onto others. This is completely understandable though. You want love and you deserve it. 

It's not coherent, is it? 

Sometimes it really feels like I nailed it. But then someone break in down to me, and even if it's hurtful, I have to give them some credit because I can see how I somehow(sub consciously?) see things from one perspective, my perspective that is. 

However, I think of myself as a compassionate guy who rather see things from others perspectives rather then my own, that is my self image. But that image start to crack down as people point it out to me, that my threads are EGO, and I have to agree! 

Huge inner dissonance from that. 

Now, how to handle that?? 

Edited May 12, 2018 by MarkusSweden

[tsuki]

12 minutes ago, MarkusSweden said:

Huge inner dissonance from that. 

Now, how to handle that?? 

There's nothing to handle. It's okay.
The moment that you think that something is true is the moment that you've missed that you assumed a perspective.
A no-perspective perspective has nothing to ask and nothing to share.

There is nothing wrong in assuming perspective. There is nothing wrong in abandoning it.
Your perspective was right at the moment you assumed it. It still is, but you chose to abandon it and became a different person.

I really enjoy your threads, Markus.