What is the ego?

[Guest guest]

The ego is your narrow belief that you are the tiny aspect of yourself

which is memories. Look at it deeply and you will see that these

memories are not all that you are. You want to be someone special. But

you already _are_ someone special. You want to make a good impression

so that people will look up to you, but that is the tiny aspect of you

speaking. The only reason that you want people to acknowledge you is

that you have an idea of yourself as someone flawed, someone not worth

attention unless you make a good impression, someone who needs other

people to support you or you will fall down from the tiny pedestal you

believe yourself to be standing on.

 

That is the ego. The ground of being which you are is much vaster than

your ideas about yourself being great, or this or that person being

great. You admire certain people but in your heart you think you are

better than them. You have so high ideas about yourself and so low

ideas about yourself at the same time. You are split. You are

suffering from a mild form of schizophrenia. That's why you are

confused. You don't know who you are. And you don't know who anybody

else is either.

 

That is the ego. And that is who you think you are.

 

/AL