Are we prisoners of our ego?

"The ego do not fight it, do not judge it, simply accept it, so you can transcend it"anita moorjani.

ego is a Latin word that meansMe.psychologically, it's the personality. seen from another angle, our ego, the divided consciousness, distinguishes the notion of separation; inside and outside. Here is a beautiful story lived and told by echart toll,"the ego stratagems."extract from the audio book"Live free."

The author tells us that an old gentleman was feeding ducks with bread crumbs, when two young people spoke to him to warn him about the dangers of feeding these animals with bread. This food fills the stomach of these birds, but without bringing them what they really need nutritionally.

the old man recognized by grumbling that he was aware of the evils of this food on the ducks, but that it pleased him to feed them. he specified to the children:

"Okay, I'm not an idiot, no one's gonna tell me what to do, I'm not stupid."

Eckhart-Toll commented on the old's words:

"the reaction of the ego is mechanical, the old gentleman began to speak with anger and to defend himself. It wasn't logical, because we can't defend a behavior that we just recognized is bad. But the ego doesn't care. It was an automatic defense mechanism. and he spoke for several minutes, he was more and more angry, more and more on the defensive. What was he defending? "

Then, after that, the young people greeted the old gentleman and left.

echart toll then proposes to rewrite another scenario of this lived story, where the old gentleman, following the remarks of the young, would have recognized his mistake and agree to change his behaviour by stopping feeding the ducks. eckhart toll explains such behavior:

"so his true power manifests, where the ego would have said - you are being wiped out, it is weakness, defend yourself! his true power would have arisen, if he had honestly expressed that, without needing to defend an image. in the eyes of the ego it looks like vulnerability, but it is not. This is the true strength. all the quality of the interaction would have changed. there could have been a true communication between humans; the young and the old man. There could have even been love! There could have been a wonderful meeting. But the ego didn't allow it. He needed to defend himself. People are getting deeper into this trap.

It's just a tiny example. Imagine someone who spends his whole life like that. And that's the case of most people! Maybe you recognize yourself in part, sometimes more than a little in your life. When "the presence" arises, and you observe the defensive attitude, you say - my god is that! - and then sometimes, by simple observation, you go beyond that, because it is the power that resides where you no longer defend yourself. then a sudden change occurs. and always the mind will tell you - attention, defend yourself, protect yourself - so you learn by observing other humans and observing yourself, of course".

if the ego of which we have just seen the mechanisms of operation and defensive, we add the effect of all our education and conditioning,(believers, values, dogmas, obsolete and erroneous traditions, experiences of suffering, etc.).One understands better why man appears rigid for millennia.

his attitude towards himself and others, has generally not improved over the history of humanity. but what appears as an inevitably frozen behavior, could under the influence of an awareness in contact with its essence, its being or its true self, free the man from the chains, with which he himself interfered.

these chains(believers, dogmas, values. all wrong),Are they not the fruit of our divided consciousness? the ego can hide where it is not expected, expressing itself by pride in an unexpected way.

"one the most common, or one agrees oneself in an outrageous manner; the other more subtle where you can't accept. This is probably the most refined. "Henri frédéric amiel.

In truth, the more you recognize your value, the more humble you will be!

We can spend weeks, years, and millennia to explain the mechanisms and the many motives behind, the dissensions between people, between peoples. but in the end, it is a bit like the very simple principles that preside over a true health; our perpetual wars with ourselves and our fellows come mainly from our divided consciousness, based on fear and not on love. oneproblemis only our interpretation of a situation. behind any conflict(inside or outside),discord, war, hides fear.

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ericdarche/ Naturopath-hygienist, author of 9 works
creator of a school of naturopathy and hygienicism in E-learning:enhed

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