 It’s good not to take the ego personally even though it seems so personal: it talks like us, thinks like us, remembers our childhood and likes us best – but the ego/mind really isn’t who we are.
The ego/mind is actually an aspect of form and it has a very useful job. Its job is to stay “alive” which ensures that the body it comes with stays intact, so life can still flow through it. The ego’s sole purpose is survival and survival will do anything to win. It will claw its way to the top, take the last piece, deceive, manipulate and even kill to get its way. Isn’t that bad? Fortunately, the ego/mind is not what we are – but that can be hard to remember, especially because who is responsible for its behavior? We are. And who pays the consequences of everything it thinks and does? We do. The Inner Dog If your dog digs up the neighbor’s garden, chews up the welcome mat and terrorizes the cat, you have something to fix up with your neighbor, but you know you’re not the dog. Right?
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We may at first have thought consciousness was in the mind, or even thought it was the mind itself. That it was somehow part of our domain; our personal interface with life or our go-to source of thinking and reason.
Exploring the mind however, we discover it is not consciousness that is personal, but the mind. We discover the mind is limited and finite and that we can go beyond it — to consciousness itself. Even as a new explorer, we are aware of something here vast and whole, an infinite peace, potent and complete. And we know — as if remembering — that this is also the intrinsic, intimate truth of ourselves.
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This is a blog for those who travel an inner path, seeking truth, beauty and the source of being.
Here are ideas and practices to help and encourage the traveler, and to address the obstacles that we, as students of consciousness, inevitably encounter. Everything you find here you can do at anytime and take as far as you want.
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Consciousness is the ultimate teacher: it is always showing us what we are.
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