ego wants to be special. if it cant be special, one way or the other, and if it cant be special by being superior to others then ego would also be quite happy with being quite miserable. e.g. headache, etc, etc. people actually compete whose more miserable 'you' or 'me'. the ego says that i am superior to you because it just wants to be recognized as special and it always tends to be special. therefore, if you recognize in your self, the unconscious need to be special then you are already half free because when you recognize the older patterns of the ego.
specialness is one pattern of the ego, another pattern of ego is that it wants to be right all the time, another pattern of the ego is that it needs and loves, conflict with others and this is the amazing thing. ofcourse thats unconscious because the ego defines itself through a boundary that draws, 'this is me and that is other'. and that is an important word because the ego needs to emphasis the 'otherness' of the other person and that happens on the personal level when people are suspicious of other peoples motives; enemies that is deeply built in the ego. The ego needs enemies because it defines itself by emphasising the otherness of the other. Nations do it, religions do it.
The believer, identifies with one particular religion, for many people religion is only a mind structure and not in its deeper sense but for many people religion is an ideology that they identify with and then they need the non-believer, the other because by having the 'other' they have their own sense of identity more strongly. They need the other in order to feel their own need of identity strongly. e.g. children's toy story happening in every house.
then their is ego identification with one form or another could be a physical form, a possession (my house, my car, my dog), so when u have identified the sense of who u are, is in that thing. and if that thing is criticised for example, by somebody else then you will become extremely defensive or aggressive because u r feeling, ur very own sense of self is threatened. then their are other forms of the identification, e.g. my opinions, minds forms, being very strong self-identification with their mental positions, 'and i am right' and it implies that somebody else has to be wrong and i continue to be right.
So what need to be done is to evolve or die from the stark daunting truth of ego. this is the point where the evolution of consciousness and awakening of humaity is no longer a luxury because now we have reached a point where we dont grow out of the dysfunctionality of the ego because it is now being amplified, the defeats the dysfunctions are amplified by technology. So wat we are doing to our self, our fellow human beings, to the planet is more and more destructive an devastating then destroying ourselves only.
Its time to stop, think, recognize the patterns and start negotiating and taming the ego.
specialness is one pattern of the ego, another pattern of ego is that it wants to be right all the time, another pattern of the ego is that it needs and loves, conflict with others and this is the amazing thing. ofcourse thats unconscious because the ego defines itself through a boundary that draws, 'this is me and that is other'. and that is an important word because the ego needs to emphasis the 'otherness' of the other person and that happens on the personal level when people are suspicious of other peoples motives; enemies that is deeply built in the ego. The ego needs enemies because it defines itself by emphasising the otherness of the other. Nations do it, religions do it.
The believer, identifies with one particular religion, for many people religion is only a mind structure and not in its deeper sense but for many people religion is an ideology that they identify with and then they need the non-believer, the other because by having the 'other' they have their own sense of identity more strongly. They need the other in order to feel their own need of identity strongly. e.g. children's toy story happening in every house.
then their is ego identification with one form or another could be a physical form, a possession (my house, my car, my dog), so when u have identified the sense of who u are, is in that thing. and if that thing is criticised for example, by somebody else then you will become extremely defensive or aggressive because u r feeling, ur very own sense of self is threatened. then their are other forms of the identification, e.g. my opinions, minds forms, being very strong self-identification with their mental positions, 'and i am right' and it implies that somebody else has to be wrong and i continue to be right.
So what need to be done is to evolve or die from the stark daunting truth of ego. this is the point where the evolution of consciousness and awakening of humaity is no longer a luxury because now we have reached a point where we dont grow out of the dysfunctionality of the ego because it is now being amplified, the defeats the dysfunctions are amplified by technology. So wat we are doing to our self, our fellow human beings, to the planet is more and more destructive an devastating then destroying ourselves only.
Its time to stop, think, recognize the patterns and start negotiating and taming the ego.
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