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Today is the first part in a series of three scheduled
masses. During this series we are going to delve into
the subject of ego.
Let's talk a little bit about what ego is. I'm sure
you've heard about it. I'm sure you've heard people
talking about the problems thatthe ego can cause
for you. You've probably heard about ego death.
You've probably heard about both positive and
negative sides of ego. So let's talk about ego
and specifically let's talk about how you can
understand this concept and relate it to success
and personal development. How to get more success
in your life by understanding ego. All right. So
what is ego? Ego is basically that aspect of
yourself that you consider you. So that is when
I say "you" and I say your name and you think
"yeah that's me". That is ego. Ego is basically your
self-image of who you are. So ego is a complex
construct in your mind. It's sitting both at the
conscious and very very deep subconscious level.
So ego is that "I" that you think you are. It's
the thoughts and the emotions that you are
identified with. It's the beliefs that you think
are rock solid and completely true. It's what you
think reality is like. It is a very big and deep
construct. It's like a gigantic iceberg and
JUST THE TIP of it like, the 10% of it, is sticking
out of the water and the other 90% are all submerged.
Really, you don't know what they are. It's just
operating. It's just working. So the ego, the
fundamental thing it does, is that it separates
itself from everything else that's out in the
world. So if you're coming from the ego, and
this is 99.999% of aislings, including myself,
is what you do is you say "Okay, this is me and
everything else you look at as not you", right?
That desk is not you. That other person is not
you. Medenia is not you. So you are very distinct.
You are just your mind and your body. This skin
that you've got and everything beyond your skin
is something else. So you have that very clear
separation. This is something that you get as
an aisling who needs to survive and depends on
survival and reproduction. And so we as a species
and really every living creature has a sense
of this, this sense of "I"ness, the sense of
"this is me". This is what's really really
important and the other stuff, not so important.
Sure, you can love your spouse and you can love
your kids and you can love the business that you
built. You can even love your hp/mp or your
goldbars, but there's still a big difference
between that and really being identified with
yourself. So the ego is that identification
with yourself. Now, why are we even talking
about ego? What's the big deal? Okay, so it
seems that this is kind of an intuitive notion.
Well, the problem there is that the ego is very
clingy, the ego is very self-preservational, so
what it does, especially if you're trying to get
to higher levels of achievement, success or
consciousness in your life, is that the ego
tends to hold you back because it's got a lot
of inertia and weight to it. It doesn't always
want to go out there and explore reality for
what it really is because what's happened is
that ego has been built up regardless of how
attached you are to yourself right now. The
fact is that you and your notion of you is
highly, highly illusory and fictious. I know
you don't want to hear that and I don't want
to hear it either. The ego doesn't want to
hear it, but it's a very arbitrary way in
which the ego came about. It just came about
through the experiences that you had in your
early childhood and then early adulthood, all
the way up to now. Every experience that you
had through your whole life, from birth to this
current double-moon, this current day, has added
something to your ego. It's created this giant
yarn ball of all these different strands, all
tightly interwoven. It's like an object. It's like
a thing. It's got its own mass to it. It's hard to
recognize that. It's hard to go in there and pull
a strand out and create something actually useful
out of it. So that's what a lot of personal
development is about. It's about working with
your ego. Because if your ego is too big, and
that's what we say when we say "This aisling has a
really big ego". What does that usually mean? That
means, yeah, he's kind of a he's a jackass, he's
stubborn, he's not open-minded, right? That's
kind of what it is, but that's very surface level
understanding of ego. A much deeper understanding
of ego is that you've got these beliefs and you've
got this big network, this ball of yarn that is
responsible for all your behaviors, all your actions,
all your beliefs, all your thoughts.
This is a very arbitrary thing.
Alright, this concludes today's session
about ego. I hope you've enjoyed it and
we will see you next week for the second
part of this series.
Now let's all praise Cail together.
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