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Recently I had the privilege of meeting someone who has been on his journey longer than I have. He had studied and compared many different religions and was now in a period of adjustment as he increased his vibrational level and became more in touch with nature.
He told me that it was important to suppress the ego. The ego was what got in the way for many people. To find true peace you must be 100% humble.
This is a great sentiment and one that will definitely work if you are a monk living in a monastery or you’re living by yourself and have no need to interact with others. Unfortunately, as we’re stuck in a negative, three dimensional world of our making, it is just impossible to not have any ego. You need an ego to survive. You cannot negotiate without one. If you removed your ego and went to a market and someone overcharged you, you’d say ‘well, that’s alright’ If you had a partner and someone took your partner away from you because they were a bit better than you or you didn’t make an effort to retain that partner, without an ego you’d say ‘well, that’s alright’ or ‘it was meant to be’ If you did that, you’re not going to survive very well in this world.
If you would like to reach true enlightenment, being 100% humble and removing all ego is necessary. If, however, you’re like me and still have a day job, still need to buy things from shops, still need to negotiate to be able to get what you want, then you need to keep some of your ego.
Though, if you have thoughts of world domination, you should scale your ego back a bit!
Hi Manus. I’ve been enjoying reading your blogs.
Being without ego doesn’t mean becoming a push over. I’m employed as a sales consultant so negotiating with people everyday.
Being without ego (and we are talking about what Hare Krishna’s call the false ego) is part of not being attached to the material world, not taking credit for material achievements, understanding that there is a higher power involved. Now spiritual achievements is another matter, for this you will get benefits, however, these are far and beyond the Human Ego.
One can only achievement detachment from this material world by firstly living without ego.
Peace Kevin.
Hi Kevin
That’s great to hear. I was concerned a bit. Of course, if you’re in sales you need to take public credit for the sales you perform in the material world otherwise you wouldn’t get a commission and the boss wouldn’t give you a raise for your achievements. So, what I understand you mean is that you don’t take private credit for it, you credit your good skills and sales successes to the higher power that is watching over you. So, anything I achieve or anything created by me I should, while putting my name to it, not take complete credit but always defer most of it to a higher power. By showing appreciation for this higher power I’d be removing myself from my ego.
So I can still do all the things that I might do now which I currently credit my ego for, but instead credit a higher power, and thereby reach a higher state of consciousness?
I can also see how that would help reinforce an attitude of gratitude. If you’re always grateful for absolutely everything that happens, including things that you worked hard to create yourself (with help from above) then abundance will continue to increase.
Detachment from the material world is my long term goal. It’s going to be awhile for me as I’m a bit of a hoarder. Don’t know how I’ll be able to throw away all the stuff I’ve kept since I was 2!
Peace and Light – Manus