Watch Out For This! Enlightenment Topic.

[Hero in progress]

Hey guys I hope your well,

The thing I keep becoming aware of on this path of consciousness is there is a sneaky little trick that the ego plays, basically and I don't know if anyone else has noticed this but as you already know the ego wants to survive, any way that it can. So be very careful that the active thought stream of the mind does not try to claim that you are a spiritual person now and you get more lost in this complex process, and believe you are someone who is more aware than other human beings, and in a way  superior. Now this is very subtle, People try to one up each other pointing out this or that. Only a ego would do that. Only ego would want to seem smarter and more aware than other human beings. Know that enlightenment really is not about you as a identity. Obviously you can't control the thoughts popping up and thats fine, as Leo said in one of his videos awareness alone is curative. Now please don't take this as any offence to anybody, its just something that might be the case for someone out there. Hope it helps.

[Neo]

That's why we have to be already enlightened and not going anywhere, because other wise the whole ruddy thing is just a big outing for the ego.

[Prabhaker]

Try to understand the ego. Analyze it, dissect it, watch it, observe it, from as many angles as possible. And don't be in a hurry to sacrifice it, otherwise the greatest egoist is born: the person who thinks he is humble, the person who thinks that he has no ego. 

That is again the same story played on a more subtle level. That's what the spiritual people have been doing down the ages – pious egoists they have been. They have made their ego even more decorated; it has taken the color of spirituality and holiness. Your ego is better than the ego of a saint; your ego is better, far better – because your ego is very gross, and the gross ego can be understood and dropped more easily than the subtle. The subtle ego goes on playing such games that it is very difficult. One will need absolute awareness to watch it.

[Flowzo]

Good post. Very simple but also extremely profound.