What is the biggest barrier to ridding yourself of the ego's grasp over you

[JuliusCaesar]

The subconscious realms increase in power the closer we get to the unconscious from the ordinary conscious mind. The conscious mind in humans, in it's ordinary state of operation has difficulty influencing the levels below it because it's less powerful and objectively less conscious than the "lower" levels of mind. So the conscious mind in humans usually can't operate like the unconscious, as if there were some kind of jamming frequency present, disconnecting the ego mind from the power of the different levels of the human mind, both above and below ordinary human awareness.

 

Just to clarify, when I say power I actually mean omnipotence. Where all states of mind are all-powerful(reality brings form to their thoughts, feelings, desires, and imaginings, for instance, you can be on the moon by thinking you're on the Moon though you were previously on Mars given you're powerful enough), but some more than others. So the normal ego mind is less omnipotent than the subconscious, which is less omnipotent than the unconscious, which is the level from which all possible and impossible realities arise.

[Matthew85]

@JuliusCaesar In your research have you discovered an effective way to change the programs running in the unconscious?

[Razard86]

3 hours ago, JuliusCaesar said:

The subconscious realms increase in power the closer we get to the unconscious from the ordinary conscious mind. The conscious mind in humans, in it's ordinary state of operation has difficulty influencing the levels below it because it's less powerful and objectively less conscious than the "lower" levels of mind. So the conscious mind in humans usually can't operate like the unconscious, as if there were some kind of jamming frequency present, disconnecting the ego mind from the power of the different levels of the human mind, both above and below ordinary human awareness.

 

Just to clarify, when I say power I actually mean omnipotence. Where all states of mind are all-powerful(reality brings form to their thoughts, feelings, desires, and imaginings, for instance, you can be on the moon by thinking you're on the Moon though you were previously on Mars given you're powerful enough), but some more than others. So the normal ego mind is less omnipotent than the subconscious, which is less omnipotent than the unconscious, which is the level from which all possible and impossible realities arise.

Yes this is true. The difference between the two is staggering also.

[VeganAwake]

Totally,

Awakening reveals there was nothing right or wrong with those apparent clouds seemingly blocking the warm sunshine, and a clear sunny day....well that's like the cherry on top ? 

♥ 

 

Edited September 9, 2022 by VeganAwake

[SOUL]

18 minutes ago, Matthew85 said:

@SOUL I agree. I am just basing it on my experience and the experiences of others. It's not a conscious decision for the ego to reassert itself. It just happens to people without any conscious thought from them. 

Have you succeeded in permanently transcending the limits of your ego? 

The ego is a portion of the body's sense of self so it's an autonomous agent of our psyche.

It may take awhile before the grasp of the ego is loosened, it's grip is strengthened through our belief in the activity it organizes in the mind to build identity and it's grip is loosened by ceasing to believe it's activity.

Although, being in conflict with the ego still justifies it so just abide in awareness and eventually the pull of the ego fades away.

 

 

 

[axiom]

17 hours ago, Razard86 said:

awareness is foundational....it is what imagines conceptualization. If there is no awareness....there is no dream. Can't have memory without awareness, can't have happening without awareness. Can't have intelligence without awareness. 

I don’t agree with this. 

The idea that appearance requires awareness is a duality - it is in fact this that keeps the ego thinking it is real, that there is a me that is separate from the world and aware of the world.

There isn’t.

There is the world - and that’s it. “You” as a separate thing are not actually there, and you never were.

”Awareness” is an abstraction, a mislabelling of appearance. It is merely a claim to whatever is appearing. This is a very persistent misapprehension, and is the last place the embers of the ego will hide, waiting for any fuel (any apparent inconvenience, hurdle, or perceived attack) to fully reignite. And reignite it will. Cue more seeking.

Finally cornered, it can be seen that the self was only ever an ownership-taking energy. A parasite. And the cosmic joke is that it too is simply an appearance.

When this "parasite" truly has no place left to hide - not even in the idea of awareness - all of its energy is entirely dissolved. Reality is seen as it is - free, clearer, brighter. No ownership, no judgement and noone there to judge. Simply an appearance. 

Edited September 9, 2022 by axiom

[Dazgwny]

This doesn’t need a discussion. It’s your/my selfishness. It’s as simple as that

[axiom]

4 minutes ago, Dazgwny said:

This doesn’t need a discussion. It’s your/my selfishness. It’s as simple as that

In a way this is correct. All seeking perpetuates the illusion and feeds the self. The whole forum should be deleted really :-)