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Originally Posted by metaw3
I haven't had time to read all the posts. I read OP and watched carefully the vids presented. They are great and thank you henners. I wanted to post a reply and I catched Carmen's post just before hitting reply. I agree with Carmen and it's exactly the point I wanted to make. Here's a vid making that point:
YouTube - Re-parenting the Ego
I don't know the story of the guy talking in the vid, but he tells it better than I would so I share it with you. |
This video you posted, the fellow starts off by saying basically: ALL the masters, all the enlightened ones tell us that we must overcome the ego completely.
Then he says "I completely disagree with this".
So let's be clear here, he's telling you straight out, the truly enlightened masters, all of them, are saying the same thing: you are not your ego, you must be reborn to enter the consciousness of heaven, you cannot 'perfect' the illusion of separation which is the ego, you must take off the mask of the ego to access your pure divine Self. This is what "all" the great masters tell us.
Now he has a different opinion we see this. Essentially, his pitch is that it is not about surrendering the human ego, it is about perfecting it. You know, you don't do something right, then just fix it, purify the ego, make it better.
Now personally, I don't know anyone, not one person with a perfect ego. I know at church, in every relgion etc. they tell you basically to be the best you can be and to be perfect... but for some odd reason, NO ONE, ever in the history of the world, has managed to perfect their ego... instead, we live in a world where pretty much everybody is dysfunctional, including ourselves!
That is of course, except for the great masters that have walked this earth including two of the more obvious Jesus Christ (who constantly stressed the need to be reborn and have the eye single rather than the dualistic eye of the ego), and Gautama Buddha who stressed the reality of the consciousness of nirvana when we are in Oneness. Now, there are many many more masters, including for example Yogananda and Eckhart Tolle (whom I consider enlightened) who teach the path of surrendering the ego.
They teach the path of taking off the mask of the illusions of separation to be reborn into the reality of who you are beyond the illusions, beyond the human ego.
So the big question is, is the fellow who made this video right and all the masters wrong? Is the quest of life really to perfect the human ego? Is that who we really are is the human ego?
The great masters have always told us otherwise, but people with egos tend to disagree...
Choose this day whom you will serve... the ego, or the divine reality of who you are when you take off the ugly mask, the imperfect able mask that is the human ego. Consider, your true Self is pure and divine, always in the Now, always present and much more than the ego which is the collective illusions of separation and comparison.
In fairness, you don't really have to choose this very day.. but it is worth considering that the great masters knew what they were talking about and unenlightened humanity teaching unenlightened humanity on how to become enlightened might not be the best approach to enlightenment
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