Originally Posted by iamthat

Maybe we need to differentiate between ego as personal identity and Ego as individualised awareness.

Ego as personal identity is only real for those who identify with personality - ie they believe that they are the thoughts and feelings centred around a physical body. We can let go of this personal identity and realise that what we had considered as our identity is simply a set of patterns through which we express ourselves.

This is part of self-enquiry. We search for an "I" and we find that the "I" does not exist.

But individualised consciousness remains. This allows us to function within the body, type on this forum, etc etc. But we are aware that it is simply consciousness acting through a physical body.

Even when consciousness can identify with all that is, individual awareness remains. We know ourselves to be limitless Being, but that still expresses itself through an individual body.

Peace.