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Originally Posted by youngnostic
So ego resides in the throat chakra?
I'm simply trying to understand what ego is and how I can identify it in me.
It seems that everyone is running around saying "ego, ego" but no one knows exactly what it is, or has vague understandings of it based on experience and things they heard/read from psychology and spiritual masters.
The problem is, in my current experience, I'm simply unable to pinpoint an ego in me... maybe it's a blind spot on my behalf and I know there would be those who would claim it is, but I'm simply generating a conversation trying to share ideas so we can collectively understand what ego is and if it's possible to not have one. I'm even willing, after a lengthy chat that didn't seem so friendly from those whom I was questioning about the same topic, to put this whole discussion to rest since talks of ego tend to generate negative reactions from others especially when there is someone claiming they don't have one.
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The centre of communication and association (ego) resides in the throat chakra for one who is pure. For one who is not, ego resides in the solar plexus chakra.
If you are going by Advaita Vedanta, your mind is
also ego, so to say you have no ego means you have transcended your whole awareness of self (at
any aspect of it).
I'm not saying you have an ego or not, as that is something I wouldn't know, however, what is trying to pinpoint an ego in you and cannot find one?
Ego can mean a glorified or aggrandized notion of self, OR acting from the self in relation to everything else...putting it through a perceptual filter of "This is ME and that is THAT...and what I am, interacts with what that is in such a way as to define or delimit what I am in relation to it".
...and you have no idea how difficult it is for me to try and explain all this.
Some may get to the stage where they have lost the whole ego-centric viewpoint, but it doesn't mean they have totally lost the ego. It means existing outside the awareness, even though the awareness remains.
Losing the ego can be temporary as well, like when one is engaged in a very pleasurable activity and they are not aware they are doing it, but that is very brief...like being lost in the plot of a movie....but when the movie is over, the ego comes back and goes 'did you enjoy that?'