Did The Universe Make A Mistake With The Ego?

Did The Universe Make A Mistake With The Ego?

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  1. That chime at the beginning made me feel spiritually awakened and my belief in the universe as some sort of giving entity makes me feel like I have control over that which I do not. I subscribe to narratives made by people that seek to explain the unanswerable questions of life. It makes me feel safe.

  2. Ego is our sense of indviduality and boundaries. It is necessary in a way. People who constantly talk about giving up the ego are in an ironic way make that part of their own ego

  3. I don't agree that the ego is no longer necessary. I think the evolutionary process is that we learn when to use it and when to tame it – managing it on a daily basis.
    Ego can be useful, it can help push us forward and also help us tap into our intuition, challenge and motivate us, etc. – Yes, "going beyond the ego, knowingly, consciously returning to the sense of oneness with nature."

  4. I wonder whether the universe should just allow the human species to always be rooted in being but always have access to the mind. I know no one is going to know they are in being but the current system is just too difficult, very few people will ever reach enlightenment.

  5. I disagree. We are not meant to leave our thoughts behind to travel to a pre-civilized state where we simply intuit being without thinking. We are to develop our thinking even further and make it more sophisticated. We need certain precipices or modes of appropriate attitude to avoid doing violence to one another, but that does not mean we should leave thoughts altogether. Look around you, at all the art and the wonders of the emergence of intelligence. We do have the right to build an image of a way of being that we want to fulfill.

  6. I came to the conclusion we need ego to gain contrast between our higher and lower self, Yin Yang, dark needs light, positive needs negative, its up to us " Consciousness " to find the balance, just as water flows around a rock.. We don't resist and force things.

  7. There's nothing fundamentally wrong with ego. It has many positive functions in our lives and is a part of us. The Buddha (and other Enlightened men) didn't try to eliminate ego; he wanted humans to see through the illusion that it projected. We always come back to the ego–it's never fully gone. What changes with Enlightenment is that we no longer believe in ego as an ultimate reality (independent "thing") and as the most important part of our lives. It's just a form or perspective that consciousness takes. A good analogy for this concept is the lap. Could you imagine being seated your whole life and regarding the lap (ego) as your most prized possession–decorating it and worshipping it (building up ego and organizing your life around it)? Then, someone comes along and tells you that there's more. That person encourages you to stand (egolessness) and helps you see that the lap is just a form, not a real "thing". Once you learn to stand you realize that not only is the lap not an ultimate reality but that it was actually the source of your confinement as you were confined to one space/perspective your whole life. The standing individual now has the freedom to explore and enjoy his/her reality without the constraint of being seated but can choose to sit and return to the lap whenever he/she wants (Enlightenment).

  8. So it sounds like your saying in the beginning of time people did not think internally and thinking just spontaneously happened one day, there are several problems with this most of all the ability to move your own body, if you do not think you cannot move so much as a finger

  9. i've wondered if those who are more inclined to cooperate with each other in a more intrinsically understanding way, are more evolved than those who are self centered and in constant competitive relationships with others. it's almost like some of us are past the bs we see in some others and realize something more.

  10. Eckhart Tolle has millions of followers. I am certainly one of his fans. There are universal laws of death, rebirth and stages of growth . What is true of the grain of wheat is true of the universe. Tolle speaks to that growth

  11. Once the ‘I want/need’ within us (at its most powerful and self serving at birth ‘I want food/warmth/love’ and to reproduce ‘I want to make a baby/I want you to love me’) has diminished, the ego (I want/need) can be discarded and transcended into the new space of enlightenment. The love, if we are nurtured correctly, we feel in our early years will sustain us when we truly need it in later life (addiction recovery/strength through illness/disease/procreation and falling in love). The ego initiated this love from our caregivers, it is a life force at times of desperation but we must learn when to discard it with its excessive nature. Just because it’s there doesn’t mean we should use it. It’s there to get us through the important bits but after that it is excess.

  12. I got a revelation! the ego is to survive and that is all. Your dreams (goals, wishes, desires) are just dreams that is why they are called “dreams”. They are out of consciousness state. Your dreams happen in a sleeping state (not awakening).

  13. We are coming back home with a new ability, from now, transcend the ego is part of the awareness. I wonder what will be the awareness factor on the next cycle.