Crash Course in Ego Transcendence

Question:

What is the fastest way to kill the ego?

The meditation is working well, and things are moving forward.

I want it dead by my birthday february 25.

JB.

My response:

There are many paths you can take, all of which will guide you into letting go of all sense of separation resulting in ego transcendence and enlightenment. Let’s look through a number of options and see if we can find something that resonates with you. Mix and match based on your own intuition and experiences.

First and foremost, the ego is not something to push against, struggle with, or overcome. The ego is not something to be killed. That mindset will only set you up for more struggle with the ego sneaking in the back door. Struggle, resistance, fighting, and killing will not work. You don’t defeat darkness with darkness. You transcend darkness by bringing in the light. This is a critical point.

Who is it that wants to kill the ego? Why, the ego, of course!

The ever present awareness has no problem with the ego being there. It is as it is.

So, how do we transcend the ego?

Surrender all the juice you get out of any egoic activity… being right, thinking, dreaming, wishing, judging, desiring, being angry, feeling guilty, etc.

Read books by Eckhart Tolle, David Hawkins, and Ariel Bravy. 

Be fully Present as often as possible.

Learn about the ego as thoroughly as possible. Notice and learn to detect every single time the ego tries to grab its hands on you. This way, when you notice it has returned, you can surrender it again.

Don’t fight it. Don’t put up resistance. What you resist persists. Instead, Love the ego and the role it plays in your life, giving you the illusions of duality and opposites. Love it, accept it, and let it go.

Release all attachments and aversions.

See everything in a state of perfection. The world is perfect, just as it is. People are perfect, just as they are. This is not a judgment. This is a statement of truth.

Do not try to improve anything, including yourself. See yourself moving from a state of perfection to a state of perfection. It’s about self-acceptance coupled with continuous expansion and spiritual growth.

A dying flower is not an imperfect flower, but a perfect dying flower. It is first a perfect seed, then a perfect set of roots and stem, then a perfect growing flower, then a perfect blossoming flower, then a perfect withering flower, then a perfect dead flower.

Each state is a place of perfection. Do not judge anything, call it good or bad or right or wrong. It is as it is, in a state of absolute perfection.

Higher does not imply better. A brick on the ninth floor is no better than a brick on the second floor. Flying birds are not inherently better than crawling reptiles. Higher, but not better. A higher level of consciousness is higher than a lower level, but not better.

The world is not imperfect. War, famine, disease, and all the stuff the ego sees as wrong are not bad, for bad doesn’t exist. Only perfection exists. All suffering is a result of ego-sponsored actions. It’s certainly not in alignment with one’s higher self, but the perfection is in the process nonetheless.

Instead of seeing the world as a place of good and bad, see it as an opportunity to create whatever you want, to create yourself to be whomever you wish to be. Lifetime after lifetime, you get to keep choosing who you want to be. In this sense, this world provides the perfect opportunity to create anything. All creations are perfect. All creators are perfect. Creators and their creations are one and the same. There is no duality.

See yourself as the infinite consciousness that you are. You are not your body. You are not your mind.

In fact, they are not even your body or your mind. They do not belong to you. You are consciousness which is temporarily using this body to experience that which we call a lifetime.

The body is no more yours than the air that is currently in your lungs. In just a moment you will breathe the air out and inhale new air. In a moment, this body will fall to the ground and you will select another. The body is not yours. It belongs to existence, just like the birds and the trees.

Meditate. Spend time watching the mind in action. Notice how it works. Notice how it tries to take credit for everything you do. Surrender away any claim to “I” or “me”. There is no you, only an egoic illusion that such a “you” exists.

Surrender all resistances to Love. Any negative feeling, ANY negative experience you have is directly a result of some sort of egoic identification.

With ego, good and bad exist.

Without ego, only Love exists. Everything is in a state of total perfection.

Be patient with yourself. Be kind and loving to yourself. Transcending the ego is one of the most challenging things you could possibly do.

Devote yourself to Love.

Let go of fears and begin leaning on them and plowing through. Notice that they’re worse in your mind than in real life. The bark is worse than the bite.

Check out A Course in Miracles. It details a great process to help you realize that all your thoughts are illusory, they don’t mean anything, and they’re all a result of the ego. It will guide you to realizing deeper truths within.

Nothing you perceive is the ultimate reality. It is but a fraction of reality, and only your distorted viewpoint. Give up the need to label, categorize, judge, or rate anything in life and just look at it as it is. It is as it is. It is.

Anything you put after the statement “I am” or “It is” is a mental interpretation created by the mind.

Who are you? Spend time deeply contemplating this question. “Who am I?” Are you your name? Body? Thoughts? Mind? Emotions? Beliefs? If any of those change, are you still you? What is the “you” that is always there?

Start listening to your body. What do you feel? I don’t mean what emotional state are you in, but how does food feel when you put your hand over it? How does the energy feel in the room? Can you detect the presence of others? If you slowly bring your palms closer and farther apart, can you detect the energy between them? The heat? The warmth? The magnetic attraction or repulsion? When your mind thinks a thought, do you have a good feeling about it or a bad feeling? Learn to trust your intuition. Follow it.

Realize that the intellect can never know Truth. Truth can only come from within. It is vast, infinite, beyond words. How can you describe Love using words? You can describe the feelings associated with Love, but you can verbalize Love itself.

The same applies to Truth. It must be experienced. Whenever it passes through a person, it is subject to their own personality, ego, worldly perspective, and level of consciousness. Thus it is filtered to a greater or lesser extent. Always. The way to access pure Truth and knowingness is to quiet the mind and raise your own level of consciousness to open yourself up to receiving Truths from within.

Open and balance your chakras. Study the affirmations that go with each chakra, internalize them, and live them. They provide an excellent blueprint for living higher level Truths and subsequently opening yourself up to higher levels of consciousness.

Learn to be lived by something other than the mind. Be lived by God. Be lived by Love. Follow your heart’s truest desires.

Give up all self-doubt. ALL self-doubt. No exception. It’s based in ego, fear, time, and what if’s.

Drop all hypothetical situations. They’re all based in ego. “What if everyone did this?” Well everyone’s not doing that so it’s a stupid question.

Realize that the fact that I called that a stupid question is a judgment as well. Realize that it’s only stupid with the condition that given what you want to achieve, which is a state of no ego, thinking in hypotheticals does not serve you. That is closer to the truth than a statement than something is stupid.

Start merging with life. Merge with other people. Merge with animals. Merge with plants. Merge with the stars and the sun. Merge with the earth. Merge with the universe. Merge with your house. Merge with the wind.

Instead of saying “There’s Bob”, instead say “There I am, being Bob.” You are the infinite consciousness that is everyone, is everywhere. There is nowhere where you are not.

Think of yourself as energy. Your soul is kind of like your etheric body, similar to your aura. Your aura is most dense in the physical location where your physical body is, yet your aura extends infinitely far in every direction. It gets thinner and thinner, less and less dense, until it finds another “person” or being and then becomes more dense. The universe is simply sections of more or less dense energy. It is really all one connected energy. There is no place where the energy is not.

It is like the air in your house between two rooms. It’s all the same air. There’s no definite dividing line between where this air ends and that air begins. It all flows into itself. Yes, the air in the kitchen may smell like food and the air in the garage may smell like cars, but it’s all the same air. It’s simply adopted different characteristics.

Bodies are the same way. It’s all made from the same “stuff”, the same energy. They’ve simply adopted different characteristics.

Different notes on a musical scale are all musical notes. They just have different characteristics. In truth, each note is part of a larger group called musical notes, which is part of a larger group called sound vibration, which is part of a larger group called vibration, which is just another name for energy, which is another name for your soul, which is just a higher vibrational frequency version of your physical body, which you perceive as you.

The musical notes are you. Everything is you. You and I are one. We are all one.

See things as together. See the unity in All That Is.

Drop the ego’s need to separate, break apart, divide, judge, criticize. That’s all illusion. It really and truly is.

Constantly feel yourself living in a state of Oneness. Continuously open yourself up to the Divine. Feel your connection to All That Is.

Start living your life this way and your ego is gone.

Ego? What ego?

Oh, one more important point.

You said, “I want it dead by my birthday february 25.”

Release the need to get to a certain point by a certain date.

By doing so, you’re actually strengthening the ego. The ego operates by setting goals out in the future and trying to achieve them in order to feel successful. This is a very yang activity.

You’re basically telling yourself, “I am not enlightened, but one day I will be.”

No, you already ARE enlightened. There’s nowhere to get to. The only thing to do is release the ego Now, in this moment, over and over again.

The sun is already shining, but the clouds of the ego are in the way. The trick is to remove the clouds and allow the light that is ALREADY THERE to shine through.

You don’t get to the state of not having an ego, where there is no time, by setting a date and getting there through the ego, by traveling through time. You don’t transcend duality by going through duality. You transcend it by rising above it and reaching out towards nonduality and Oneness.

Adopt a more yin attitude towards spiritual growth. You release the ego’s attachment to desires and allow yourself to be LIVED by God, to be LIVED by Life, to be LIVED by Love.

Allow yourself to be exactly where you are now and to be guided by spiritual will which will always be in alignment with the highest good.

Forgive others.

Forgive yourself.

Forgive God.

Don’t believe a word you think.

What’s the fastest way to let go of the ego?

Drop it. NOW. Surrender all sense of separation.

Done. End of story.

It’s truly that simple. Perhaps not easy, but simple.

If Truth was complicated, everyone would get it.

Just let go.

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