Found an interesting video

[Razard86]

This video is a stock example of the rhetoric I have discussed in the past that will get you stuck in your Spiritual Practice because it engages in this fear of your ego. Many people turn the ego into a BOOGEY MAN that is like OH MAN THERE GOES MY EGO AGAIN! The ego is a tool, it was constructed so you could live your life from a human perspective. Now I recently have become Conscious that when your awareness raises you can hear the subconscious thoughts that your ego creates. I have become aware that yes the EGO is a devil, but it is devil based on the programming that went into it.

I'll explain. Let's say for example you grew up in a country where you were taught that money is the most important thing and based on your environment and how it functions that is what is being expressed. Then your ego, being the logical part of you wanting to survive in this environment will take that on as a personal truth and it will filter your experience through that lens. This goes with every event in your environment. Your ego is the part that has knowledge about the rules of survival and what are the best strategies. This is why Jesus said it is hard for a rich man to enter the Kingdom of God. It's not that the rich man is evil, it's that he is too egoic, too attached to individual survival. The more attached you are to things like (status) winning at something, looking good or better in comparison than someone else, material possessions, afraid to make the wrong decisions, basically if you are too self-conscious (individual self) that you are afraid and paranoid that is when you are being too egoic.

But make no mistake you will still have to interface with your ego. Language is ego. Body movement is ego. Memory is ego. Interpretation is ego. The part of you that isn't ego is things like patience, empathy, compassion, open-mindedness, acceptance, lack of care of individual survival, surrender. Now notice this....the part of you that isn't ego....would never complain about the ego. All complaints about ego....IS EGO!!! This is how people get trapped. Because every complaint that a person has about ego...is a complaint about their OWN EGO. As long as you are complaining about your ego, you are still not accepting those parts within yourself. It's fine, the ego is a tricky tool and this isn't me making you feel bad because the cool thing about the ego is it gives you clarity on why your life has been the way it has up to this point. 

On a personal level for me I have recently discovered that I have a duality between giving and receiving that I have to dissolve. I see giving as superior to receiving and am currently being taught through my lived experience that they are ONE. This has come from my programming through religion and my political affiliations that has demonized the rich/wealthy as greedy. As such I love to give freely but I struggle to ask for help and its so illogical because the longer you wait to ask for help when you need it the bigger the ditch/hole you place yourself in. I used to not understand the phrase "What you think you are too good to ask for help." But now I understand it. When you give a lot you can turn it into an identity and start feeling superior to those who don't. This will make you afraid to receive because that threatens your identity as a giver and destroys your hidden superiority complex. 

The ego is always trying to find a way to be superior, it turns everything into a competition. It will even turn self-denial into a competition. This stuff is funny as hell to me. Anyway watch the video and listen to the guy on the left as he fear mongers the ego like its some boogey man. I am glad the guy on the right understands the importance of the ego. It's a tool, you just have to watch it like a hawk is all because it can co-opt you/trick you into giving it control. 

Do you believe too many people are trying to be teachers before they are students? Or is this another duality? Think about it......

Edited August 20, 2023 by Razard86