Wake up Mr. Green!
The Ego is the worst confidence trickster we can ever imagine – Cause, you don’t see it! And the single biggest con is, “I am you”. The problem is that the Ego hides in the last place that you would ever look, within itself. It disguises its thoughts as your thoughts, its feelings as your feelings, you think it’s you! People’s need to protect their own Egos knows no bounds. They will lie, cheat, steal, kill, do whatever it takes to maintain what we call Ego boundaries. People have no clue that they are in a prison, they don’t know that there is an Ego, they don’t know the distinction. At first it’s difficult for the mind to accept that there’s something beyond itself, that there’s something of greater value and greater capacity for discerning truth then itself. In religion the Ego manifests as the devil, and of course no one realizes how smart the Ego is because it created the devil so you can blame someone else. In creating this imaginary external we make a real enemy for ourselves and that becomes a real danger to the Ego but it’s also the Ego’s creation. There is no such thing as an external enemy no matter what that voice in your head is telling you. All perception of an enemy is a projection of the Ego as the enemy. In that sense you can say that 100% of our external enemies are of our own creation. Your greatest enemy is your own inner perception, your own ignorance, your own Ego. “Wake up Mr. Green!”
The Ego is the worst confidence trickster we can ever imagine – Cause, you don’t see it! And the single biggest con is, “I am you”. The problem is that the Ego hides in the last place that you would ever look, within itself. It disguises its thoughts as your thoughts, its feelings as your feelings, you think it’s you! People’s need to protect their own Egos knows no bounds. They will lie, cheat, steal, kill, do whatever it takes to maintain what we call Ego boundaries. People have no clue that they are in a prison, they don’t know that there is an Ego, they don’t know the distinction. At first it’s difficult for the mind to accept that there’s something beyond itself, that there’s something of greater value and greater capacity for discerning truth then itself. In religion the Ego manifests as the devil, and of course no one realizes how smart the Ego is because it created the devil so you can blame someone else. In creating this imaginary external we make a real enemy for ourselves and that becomes a real danger to the Ego but it’s also the Ego’s creation. There is no such thing as an external enemy no matter what that voice in your head is telling you. All perception of an enemy is a projection of the Ego as the enemy. In that sense you can say that 100% of our external enemies are of our own creation. Your greatest enemy is your own inner perception, your own ignorance, your own Ego. “Wake up Mr. Green!”
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