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Balance
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 Posted - Apr 03 2008 : 02:53:49 AM
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It's interesting to me (this ego) to consider that "the ego" or the identification as a separate self is a phantom and has no solidity whatsoever. That it has no independant existence at all.
There appears to be a continuity of a person, an ego, that is identified as a collection of attributes, like a thing with a stream of history of likes and dislikes that builds itself through thoughts and memories of the energetic experience of the organism's involvement with energies outside of the percieved boundaries of the organism. I guess that kind of explains a person.
But there is something not quite right to me about that being accurate.
First, does the organism really have a boundary? Where does it stop and the world begin? How can the seemingly separate body exist without the larger body that feeds it? How can there be an individual experience without the world that is experienced through the senses? The organism is also the outer world. There is no true boundary.
Second, is there really an experience of a stream of time that leads from moment to moment? If so, where is this place called the past? Where does it exist? Even if we say the past happened, it now only exists as thought, a memory of energetic exchanges. Thoughts associated to feelings connected to sensual energy. These thoughts only exist now. And now. They change always. My memories are never concrete and stable, they have changed from the get-go. They originate in a singular point of perception colored by other perceptions.
So the ego is nothing more than a collection of thoughts, which have stability only in relation to other thoughts.
That is all the power an ego actually has. It is merely a phantom dependent upon attention. Relax attention from thought and the ego falls away.
And what remains is timeless and boundless.
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Edited by - Balance on Apr 03 2008 03:14:57 AM |
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Divineis
Canada
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Posted - Apr 03 2008 : 03:23:11 AM
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Anthem
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Posted - Apr 03 2008 : 7:34:25 PM
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Thanks for the sharing Alan, I see this too, the perceiver and the perceiving are one and the ego falls away the more we dwell (with our attention)in the reality of the here and now. |
Edited by - Anthem on Apr 03 2008 7:35:46 PM |
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Jim and His Karma
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Posted - Apr 03 2008 : 9:21:01 PM
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Ego happens.
Awareness is. |
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Transparency of Ego
