Written by Mathew Naismith
I am
presently active on a forum and I thought I would share a few replies I gave on
the topic of ego and narcissism. I didn't insert other people's replies in this
case as I simply didn't want to upset people, I also don't usually insert other
people's comments from a forum on my posts.
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An interesting perspective
alejo18qd.
Ego isn't narcissism but can lead to narcissism if the ego is in control. To me, all ego is motion of what is motionless, ego is basically an expression of what Buddhism calls pure awareness or nothingness, meaning, ego is of this motionlessness state expressed as motion.
Ego isn't narcissism but can lead to narcissism if the ego is in control. To me, all ego is motion of what is motionless, ego is basically an expression of what Buddhism calls pure awareness or nothingness, meaning, ego is of this motionlessness state expressed as motion.
Motionlessness = egoless
Motion = ego
Narcissism = ego in control.
Ego is balance because it's neither of what is desired or undesired, only when the ego is in control is the ego of desire to be more than it is or more than what everything else is, for an example, to be more than what a judged old consciousness is, is the ego in control. To desire to be neither is ego and to just be all of what is void of desire is egoless, of motionlessness.
Pure awareness just doesn't mean being aware of everything, it means being of everything void of bias or desire. Being of everything negates motion therefore ego because once everything is as one, there is no motion because there is no separation, only oneness/motionlessness. Only in separation as in yin and yang is everything of ego, this is until yin and yang become one with each other.
Yin and yang working together is ego. Yin and yang not working together is egotism/narcissism and yin and yang working as one is egoless/motionless/oneness.
Ego is balance because it's neither of what is desired or undesired, only when the ego is in control is the ego of desire to be more than it is or more than what everything else is, for an example, to be more than what a judged old consciousness is, is the ego in control. To desire to be neither is ego and to just be all of what is void of desire is egoless, of motionlessness.
Pure awareness just doesn't mean being aware of everything, it means being of everything void of bias or desire. Being of everything negates motion therefore ego because once everything is as one, there is no motion because there is no separation, only oneness/motionlessness. Only in separation as in yin and yang is everything of ego, this is until yin and yang become one with each other.
Yin and yang working together is ego. Yin and yang not working together is egotism/narcissism and yin and yang working as one is egoless/motionless/oneness.
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Indeed, the so-called old-consciousness
is ego but the new consciousness isn't suppose to be but by having and showing
disdain for the old consciousness, one is still being exactly what they have
disdain for, not just the ego but the ego in control.
The ego to me simply represents limitations, the more of the ego we become, the more limited we become consciously, of course the more limited we become, the more destructive (hurtful) we become. I think our present reality shows this quite clearly, look upon what we are doing to the Earth and each other.
So has our controlling ways got something to do with our limitations? I think so for only the ego desires to change everything to it's own desires thus limiting itself only to it's desires.
To me, the soul is of the ego but I suppose one must experience this first hand to acknowledge this.
The ego to me simply represents limitations, the more of the ego we become, the more limited we become consciously, of course the more limited we become, the more destructive (hurtful) we become. I think our present reality shows this quite clearly, look upon what we are doing to the Earth and each other.
So has our controlling ways got something to do with our limitations? I think so for only the ego desires to change everything to it's own desires thus limiting itself only to it's desires.
To me, the soul is of the ego but I suppose one must experience this first hand to acknowledge this.
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A
good epitome and query to make Tawmeeleus, if it's all an illusion, does it
really matter what the ego does?
Speaking
from my own perspective I think it does, however, I do realise from other
people's/souls perspective it doesn't. I suppose this is why we have different
perspectives and perceptions, each person/soul is simply different within it's
own motion.
Is
the illusion real or not?
Within
the very present it's occurring so it's real, it's really not a real illusion
that it's fake, it's only an illusion because the ego creates it that way that
we are only of the illusion of time/ego, of course people like you and I know
different.
Is
time measured in day and night an illusion? Day and night obviously exist on
planets but not in outer space but this is but one measurement of time.
Distance, volume and cycles are also of time for which the universe is governed
by.
In my
mind is everything of time/ego an illusion as in fake, not real? No, but
time/ego can delude us to think this is all we are, this is the illusion.
So
does it matter? To people like me, yes. I simply don't have disdain for the ego
for the ego is always apart of us as in motion and has always been a part of
us. Motion, time and ego have always existed because there is no starting point
of time within timelessness for time to start existing, how can time start to
exist within nothingness even as an illusion?
I
simply look at time/ego as motion that has always existed and has always been
apart of us so yes it matters.
