The Ego is the central figure of our personal history, based upon the past and
looking into the future. It is a dissatisfied, possessive small ego that often
makes our life a misery. It is for certain that this small ego–or, more
precisely, what we believe is our Self, our Ego–coiled up tightly in the back
of our mind, is responsible for a tremendous amount of senseless and
unnecessary suffering and destruction in the history of mankind.
On our
spiritual Journey arises the question, how we transcend the Ego?
Here are 24 Keys to transcend the Ego
Key 1. The Ego is not bad, it is simply
unconscious.
Key 2. The Ego is responsible for the
integrity of the personality, for our inner well-being.
Key 3. The Ego only pursues its own
dreams and ambitions, and so it very often embitters our life.
Key 3. The components of the Ego are
thoughts, emotions, memories (with which the person identifies as "my
story”), fixed unconscious roles and collective identifications (nationality, religion,
etc.). Most people completely identify with these components of the Ego, and
for them no self "outside” of this exists.
Key 4. The identification of the Ego
with things (object, the person’s own body, way of thinking) creates the link
of the individual to various things. The Ego experiences his/her existence
through the possession of various objects.
Key 5. The satisfaction provided by the
sense of possession is, short, so the Ego usually carries on the pursuit for
new objects. There is a powerful motivation behind this activity of the Ego, a
psychological demand to obtain more, the unconscious sense of "not yet
enough,” and this feeling surfaces in a want for more.
Key 6. The content of the Ego will then
be the thing with which the individual identified him/herself (my house, my
car, my child, my intelligence, my opinion, etc.). The contents of the Ego
(with which the individual identifies) are shaped by the environment and
upbringing of the person, that is, the culture in which the person becomes an
adult.
Key 7. The thoughts such as "it’s
mine,” "I want it,” "I need it,” "it is not enough,” belong to
the structure of the Ego. The content of the Ego changes with time; it is
replaced with new contents. No content is, however, able to lastingly satisfy
the Ego as long as the structure of the Ego remains in its place.
Key 8. The Ego keeps looking for
something different, something that promises a greater satisfaction, making the
sense of self of the individual more complete.
Key 9. The Ego wants to possess more
and more, wants to become more and more powerful. More knowledge, more faith,
more material wealth. The Ego wants to devour more and wants to do it more
anxiously. That is how the Ego becomes a tyrant and dominates our life to an
increasing extent.
Key 10. The Ego is
shaped by the past, determining its structure and contents. The structure of
the Ego is an unconscious factor, which forces the individual to reinforce
his/her identity by joining an external object.
Key 11. The Ego is but
a mental production, a system of beliefs.
Key 12. The Ego strives
to protect, sustain and expand itself. The Ego functions in survival mode. The
statement that the Ego functions in a survival mode means that it continually
struggles to remain "psychologically alive,” so it regards other Egos as
rivals or even enemies.
Key 13. One of the most
important strategies of the Ego to sustain and reinforce itself is the
experience of "I am right.” This is the identification of an idea,
position, evaluation. Nothing gives the Ego more power than experiencing that
"I am right.” It is the desire of
the Ego to be right, and thus overcome the other, ensuring its own superiority.
Key 14. One of the
favorite self-reinforcing strategies of the Ego is complaining. Complaining
implies the sense that "I am right.” When another Ego refuses to accept
that "I am right,” it is an offense to the complaining Ego, which. in
turn, further reinforces its self-awareness.
Key 15. The Ego intends
to elevate the forms (including its own form) to eternity, which is impossible.
This intention of the Ego will be the source of all sufferings, because its
world of forms and shapes shall collapse like a sandcastle after a while, until
death snatches away the last of the forms: its body from it.
Key 16. Our entire
culture and civilization rest upon the selfish and possessive Ego and, as the
Ego created the institutions of society, these institutions are also the
expressions of the Ego.
Key 17. In most people identifies
with that socially conditioned Ego. At a number of people this identification
is so powerful that they are unaware that their life is governed by a socially
conditioned Mind.
Key 18. The Ego must
fall, as it is against the evolutionary development of the Consciousness.
Key 19. If an
individual is able to notice and observe the functions of the Ego, he or she
will be able to transcend it.
Key 20. We must reach
beyond our Ego-dominated mind programs, because if we fail to do that, we will
eventually destroy ourselves and a large part of the world.
Key 21. One of the ways
of transcending the Ego is not reacting wholeheartedly to the ever-changing
caleidoscope of thoughts and emotions, but concentrating on the alert Consciousness in the background instead.
Key 22. The Ego calls
itself real and the only existing ”Self,” though it is nothing more than a
conceptual product, the continually changing content of the space of Consciousness
Key 23. In the space of
Consciousness, in the state of pure consciousness the person recognizes and clearly
experiences that Ego is a fraud.
Key 24. The Truth is
that we are the embodiment of Life, we are born into this world as a result of
a miracle, and later we are lost amidst the multitude of teachings and dogmas.
(C) Frank M. Wanderer, 2013-2017.
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Frank M. Wanderer Ph.D is a professor of psychology, a consciousness researcher and writer.
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Frank is also the author of the following books:
- The Revolution of Consciousness: Deconditioning the Programmed Mind
- The Flames of Alertness: Discover the Power of Consciousness!
- The Biggest Obstacle to Enlightenment: How to Escape from the Prison of Mind Games?
- and several other books on consciousness and enlightenment.
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- The Mind Unleashed,
- Wake Up World,
- Waking Times,
- The Mind Journal
- Truth Theory
- The Open Mind
- Awakening People,
- My Empowered World,
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- ChangeYour Thoughts,
- Body, Mind, Soul, Spirit.
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