Re: What is ego?

by **WhiteShaman** on September 14th 2009, 12:15 pm

23luda23 wrote:I read a lot of information on ego and it’s all different. There are many opinions out there and I think I finally found one closer to the truth but I can be wrong. What do you think?

Here it is: Everything you learned from experiences with your parents, peers, teachers, doctors and so forth are a continuing determinant of your behavior. The best way to define ego, is "What you think you are."

You created your ego to protect you from experiencing unpleasant circumstances. Of far greater importance to your belief system is not whether you have big feet, but how the world treats people with big feet. The beliefs you have about people with big feet and how having big feet affects your life are the deep-seated beliefs that your ego remembers and plays that tape every time something comes up about the size of feet--yours or anyone else's.

This system of beliefs is what we call your ego. You ego is not the reality of what you are, but everything you have come to believe is true about you.

What you believe is not TRUTH. If it were, it would remain constant and would be the same for everyone.
You made it up, and it changes every moment of every day, so it is an illusion
Because you made it, you LOVE it, and must defend it at all costs

Think about a new idea you have and want to share. Notice how hurt you become if the world scoffs at your idea. You thought it up, and it may or may not be true, but you think it is and so you have to defend it. You have thousands of beliefs, and some of them contradict others, which explains your confusion and mixed feelings about something. It divides your efforts and effectiveness and in the extreme will immobilize you. You have accepted deeply ingrained beliefs which control your life.

Your ego's sole function is to help you by guiding you, to prove that you are right, and that what you believe is really true. It has such power to create experiences to provide proof that what you believe is true. Think about the belief that an abused child has of not being enough. His life experiences will prove to him that he is not good enough. Or the child who is taught that she is shy. Her ego will provide the instant reaction to "prove" to her that she is unable to speak fluently to visitors or classmates.

Your ego is not the bad guy, it is simply a collection of your beliefs. It is a guidance system. It will provide an instant reaction to everything that happens. Though it has unlimited power over your reactions, its options are limited and locked into only what fits with your deep-seated beliefs. You will never be without an ego, you can never transcend it, only transform it.

As you change what you believe to be true, your ego will provide new guidance for new instant reactions and thus new experiences to support your new beliefs. The Law of Attraction manifests the things that you believe to be true. By changing your beliefs, you can change your reality.

Beautifully said Luda! Good Post

I think it is just as important for people to understand the usefulness that the ego is just in the same we view the usefulness of our bodies and minds.
We are not our egos nor our bodies or our minds but while we are here, we use these instruments, hopefully in an enlightened way to coexist in this world and to enjoy it.
We can have a healthy body and a healthy mind and a healthy ego.
Peace and Blessings, Praise

WhiteShaman

by **23luda23** on September 15th 2009, 5:08 pm

WhiteShaman wrote: I think it is just as important for people to understand the usefulness that the ego is just in the same we view the usefulness of our bodies and minds.
We are not our egos nor our bodies or our minds but while we are here, we use these instruments, hopefully in an enlightened way to coexist in this world and to enjoy it.
We can have a healthy body and a healthy mind and a healthy ego.

I totaly agree :,,,,/:I always believed that everything that we have is for a reason and that we must have it in order to help us on our journey thru life. Its all depends on how we use it. Hammer is a useful tool and there is no way one can do without it if they are building something but it also can be used to demolish or destroy something or even can be used as a weapon.

by **nameless** on October 7th 2009, 4:35 pm

23luda23 wrote:What is ego?

EgoPerspective is that which perceives/imagines 'subject/object' distinctions within the Oneness.
'Ego' is 'thought'.

by **prophetic_soul** on September 28th 2010, 7:40 pm

Lao Tzu, was a mystic philosopher of ancient China who wrote the Tao te ching. In one of his chapters he says; like the Tao, the uncarved block is formless yet has within it the potential for all forms, and once the block is carved, their will be names. Referring to the ego, we our selves are like an uncarved block, and as we mature from adolescents to adulthood, and we take many forms, because of our environments, and influences.

In society, it's the ego that defines who we are, and for many of us, especially those who are young, and learning to become mature adults we change with the trends of what society defines as proper, or right.

Spirit-Being wrote:The ego is something many people have tried to abolish from the psyche, the subconscious thinks many thoughts throughout the day, as of late i have been working on clearing the subconscious mind of any untruths or negative thoughts, this is a work in progress, i find so much of what i believe is from all the people you have mentioned above, i mean when we are young we believe everything our parents tell us and society as a whole and begin to buy into these thoughts and ideas whether they are helpful or hurtful for us, we take them upon ourselves innocently, but what would Self Discovery be if this did not happen the beauty is shedding the old self and becoming new again.

All of our thoughts become seeds that are planted in our subconscious mind, and in time if we keep watering our psych with the same thoughts we manifest our reality according to our thinking patterns. We attract the good and bad that we experience, and witness in our everyday lives through the law of attraction.

Self discovery is an interesting topic Spirit-Being, because when we apply it to the ego, I find that people can sometimes be superficial, and lost by living up to anothers expectations, and by doing this, I see how people are really making them selves unhappy. They become the ego's that they think society wants them to be in order to feel excepted, and I feel that when people do this, they loose allot of faith in them selves, and are unable to find their true self their, spiritual identity.

Self discovery in a spiritual light though, is something that can really be interesting, and personal, because it allows you to really discover who you really are, and what direction you are heading in.

by **d-knots** on September 29th 2010, 9:58 pm

thank you PS and SB
it's been confusing
and I like what you have
said about Ego....
the definition needs to be lengthy
but not over the top and I really
know about the labels that can
either make you walk proud
or slump as if you don't exist....
Family is so important and they
don't even have to be blood
related as long as they are family...
LOVE
.....LOL....
Time to Eat

by **sunmystic** on December 11th 2010, 1:51 pm

Eventually one reaches a point where the "ego" is just a coat or shirt that one wears to "fit" the weather the egos that are around you are creating.

To them the "ego" is real and they are happier if you have one.

love,

sun