WHAT IS EGO

                                                             EGO'S SEARCH

      ANOTHER ASPECT OF THE EMOTIONAL PAIN IS AN INTRINSIC PART OF THE EGOIC MIND IS A DEEP-SEATED SENSE OF LACK OR INCPMPLETENESS, OF NOT BEING WHOLE. IN SOME PEOPLE, THIS IS CONSCIOUS, IN OTHERS INCONSCIOUS. IF IT IS CONSCIOUS. IT MANIFESTS AS THE UNSETTLING AND CONSTANT FEELING OF NOT BEING WORTHY OR GOOD ENOUGH. IF IT IS UNCONSCIOUS, IT WILL ONLY BE FELT INDIRCTLY AS AS INTENSE CRAVING, WANTING AND NEEDING. IN EITHER CASE, PEOPLE WILL OFTEN ENTER INT A COMPULSIVE PURSUIT OF EGO-GRATICATION AND THINGS TO IDENTIFY WITH IN ORDER TO FILL  THIS HOLE THEY FEEL WITHIN. SO THEY STIVE AFTER POSSESIONS, MONEY, SUCCESS, POWER, REGOGNITION, OR A SPECIAL RELATIONSHIP, BASICALLY SO THAT THEY FEEL BETTER ABOUT THEMSELVES, FEEL MORE COMPLETE, BUT EVEN WHEN THEY ATTAIN ALL THESE THINGS, THEY SOON FIND THAT THE HOLES IS STILL THERE, THAT IT IS BOTTOMLESS. THEN THEY ARE REALLY IN TROUBLE, BECAUSE THEY CANNOT DELUDE THEMSELVES ANYMORE. WELL, THEY CAN AND DO, BUT IT GETS MORE DIFFICULT.

     AS LONG AS THE EGOIC MIND IS RUNNING YOUR LIFE, YOU CANNOT TRULY BE AT EASE, YOU CANNOT BE AT PEACE OR FULFILLED EXCEPT FOR BRIEF INTERVALS WHEN YOU OBTAINED WHAT YOU WANTED, WHEN A CRAVING HAS JUST BEEN FULFILLED. SINCE THE EGO IS A DERIVED SENSE OF SELF, IT NEEDS TO IDENTIFY WITH EXTERENAL THINGS. IT NEEDS TO BE BOTH DEFENDED AND FED CONSTANSLY. THE MOST COMMON EGO IDENTIFICATION HAVE TO DO WITH POSSSESIONS, THE WORK YOU DO, SOCIAL STATUS AND RECOGNISATION, KNOWLEDGE AND EDUCATION, PHYSICAL APPEARANCE, SPECIAL ABILITIES, RELATIONSHIPS, PERSONAL AND FAMILY HISTORY, BELIEF SYSTEMS, AND OFTEN ALSO POLITICAL, NATIONALISTIC, RACIAL, RELIGIOUS, AND OTHER COLLECTIVE IDENFICATIONS. NONE OF THESE IS YOU.

       DO YOU FIND THIS FRIGHTENING? OR IS IT A RELIEF TO KNOW THIS? ALL OF THESE THINGS YOU WILL HAVE TO RELINQUISH SOONER OR LATER. PERHAPS YOU FIND IT AS YET HARD TO BELIEVE, AND I AM CERTAINLY NOT ASKING YOU TO BELIEVE THAT YOUR IDENTIFY CANNOT BE FOUND IN ANY OF THOSE THINGS. YOU WILL KNOW THE TRUTH OF IT FOR YOURSELF. YOU WILL KNOW IT AT THE LATEST WHEN YOU FEEL DEATH APPROACHING. DEATH IS A STRIPPING AWAY OF ALL THAT IS NOT YOU. THE SECRET OF LIFE IS TO "DIE BEFORE YOU DIE"-AND FIND THAT THERE IS NO DEATH.