I often hear people ask, “How can I know if it’s ego?” It seems to me they want to know whether or not to trust a thought and to take action on it or not.
This is not about ego in the conventional sense of the word, as in someone thinking themselves superior to others.
Rather it’s about the distinction between a separate individual, the false idea of who you are (which is where all the problems arise from), and the universal, absolute one Self that all beings are.
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Like gold that has the form of a necklace or a ring, the names and forms are different, but it is all just gold.
There is only the One, and each of us is that.
Because we don’t know directly who we actually are, we make up conceptual ideas like being a “spiritual being having a human experience,” or of “having” a “soul.”
(With that idea, I could never help but wonder which one I am, the soul or the one that “has” a soul, and what actually are each of these?)
We can live a long life with band-aid concepts, all the while deep within there is a nagging sense that something is off… something is …missing.
You may have a temporary good feeling with the ephemeral thought that we are “connected,” but it’s shallow, unsatisfactory, and short-lived.
We can live a long life with band-aid concepts, all the while deep within there is a nagging sense that something is off… something is …missing.
And that’s a good thing. It is calling you back to the first error, and to the real, and to Truth.
Even the arising of sincere questioning is an indication that things are turning around.
You can separate and extract the false phenomena called ego from your Self.
As the great sage Ramana Maharshi said, “The I removes the I, and remains the I.”
Asking the question, “Is it ego?” is one way of turning away from the “world” or “other” and turning toward yourself, and doing so creates opportunities to make the greatest discovery a human being could ever make.
This discovery will put an end to the nagging existential questions you probably swept under the carpet, like almost everyone else, years ago.
You do have a built-in guidance system for extracting the phenomena of ego, or false self, from your actual, real, absolute, and eternal, Self.
The first step is beginning to discern what is ego, and what it is not.
So when is it ego? Due to unconsciously not knowing the difference, how can you tell?
I’ve put together a quick reference flowchart; an ego identification kit to help you get started.
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