Hello and welcome all!
If you have any questions or comments, please wait
until the end and I'll be happy to discuss further!
Today is the third part, and last, in this series of
masses. Please remember nothing about people is ever
one-size-fits-all, we're just talking about ways
to improve Balance into our lives. The first step to
overcome any challenge, is to understand the it.
Last week, we talked about ego being reshaped as
new experiences either enrich or diminish it and
today we'll continue on this path.
As you're getting that notion that your ego
is kind of expanding out and it's dissolving, you
start to notice that it's easier to control
yourself. You start to notice you're not so
neurotic. You're not so anxious. You're not so
worried all the time. Your thoughts do not have
a grasp over you. Maybe you don't identify with
certain thoughts the way that you used to in
the past simply because you've suffered too much
from that. I mean, and that's basically what
monks do is they sit for hours and hours every
day for tens and tens of years until eventually
their ego kind of just crumbles under its own weight
and then they get this relief. But I think all of
us are going through that process. This is a
gradual process that you go through. And so that
is basically what ego is. And I think that, you
know, all of us mortals, unless we're monks who
have transcended enlightenment, all of us mortals
have a really strong sense of ego. And I'm not really
expecting you to go out there and to solve that
problem right now. I just want you to be aware of
it. I want you to understand how judgmental you are.
As am I. This is huge. How many judgments are you
making per day? Track this. Just spend a day
monitoring how much you're judging things. And
by judging, I simply mean putting a value on it.
Because there's two ways to go about life. Well
it's more of a spectrum, but we're going to talk
about the two poles of this spectrum, the two ends.
One end is where everything is judged according to
some sort of metric, some sort of value. That's one
way. The other way is to just be in life. Be totally
in the moment and everything is okay. Nothing is bad.
Nothing is good. Everything just is. It's being
right. Those are the two far ends of the spectrum.
Most of us are somewhere in the middle. although I
would argue much much further towards this scanning
and judging type of mindset. In this scanning and
judging mindset, everything that you're looking at,
you're judging and you're evaluating.
You know, oh,
he didn't do that. Oh, he just sold a bad code to
someone. He's scamming. That's bad. Oh, she told me
that she didn't like my shirt. She was rude. That's
bad. Or it's like, oh, she didn't approve of me
because of what I said. That's bad. We go through our
whole day, week and our whole life like thisn judging.
Everything has some sort of purpose. Things that
happen that are favorable to our ego, we love and
we're happy about. The things that are unfavorable,
we're depressed about, we're miserable about,
we're frustrated about. So what happens is that we
go through life playing this up and down game.
This whole game of chasing after things that
are good and and avoiding the things that are bad. As
your ego is dissolved and you see yourself as more part
of the whole universe and just being more in the
present moment, then you start to disidentify with that
and you move away from the judgment and you become more
at peace, more calm, more your natural you. You raise
your level of consciousness. So that's ultimately
what ego is about. It's a mountain of "you" that
overthinks and judges a lot, based on your past
experiences.
Alright, this concludes today's session
about ego. I hope you've enjoyed it and
with this, the series is completed!
Now let's all praise Cail together, to help us reach
Balance in both mind, and body.
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