Ego dissolution to end suffering

Question: “I’ve heard that to “dissolve your ego” that you need to let it be, so it will lose power. I’ve tried this so many times, been doing it for months, but mind will just not shut up. I’ve tried everything I can, but it just keeps repeating over and over…it’s like torture! So then I just try to distract myself, do something to forget about them. But the negative thoughts just keep coming back.” Answer: What are you referring to as ego? It seems to be thought, and this is the #1 error spiritual seekers make, confusing thought with ego. Wanting to get rid of “the ego,” people try to get rid of thought. But thought itself is not …

what is ego

Alter ego unveiled

…alter ego (Latin, “the other I”) is a second self, which is believed to be distinct from a person’s normal or original personality. But what is a “normal” or “original” personality? We often think of personality as “who we are,” (and so we don’t like it to change.) But personality is not something static. Is your personality the same as when you were 10 years old?

Bad emotions are not the ego

While bad emotions may be a “stink” that comes from ego, they are not what ego is, in and of itself. Good emotions (worldly attachment happiness) also are stink from the ego…

People think we are connected, and that is the problem

People think we are connected, and that is the problem. What is required, assumed, or built-in, in order to be connected? Disconnected. We originally think we are “other” than the totality. We imagine that we exist as some actual, separate thing called a person. So we try to band-aid that strong belief in separation with a weaker idea that we are “connected.” It will never work. What is needed is to begin to see…