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Originally Posted by Unseeking Seeker
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Thanks for the lucid post. My understanding, is as follows:
Consciousness being singular, the ego-identity or phantom self is merely a stagnative indulgence of attention in the mind-body form or our earth life interface. Ego has many interpretations and in this post is taken to be the deluded conviction that mind body is all there is to us. It is that aspect of separation from source which creates independent doership, out of alignment with universal consciousness. The ‘illusionary’ ego becomes ‘real’ for as long as attention from source or consciousness stagnates or indulges in ego cravings.
Consciousness delegates or pours a part of itself without lessening itself to enliven or empower the mind-body. In order to fully experience earth life, consciousness operates through the limited self.
The exercise then is for the limited mind body aspect of consciousness or we may say, reflected consciousness, to recognise itself as an integral constituent of consciousness as a whole.
The immersion of consciousness into limitation and withdrawal back into itself may be likened to a pulse where consciousness choicelessly chooses to engage in lower vibrations and then resurface to its innate blissful state of wholeness. Since the outpouring of consciousness into limitation contains itself, its original essence always remains holographically present within the limited form as an ever present link to itself. The connection is veiled or made dormant by maya.
The remedy lies in exiting stagnation arising owing to association with mind body. This is not negation. It is recognition. Upon recognition without oscillation, the mind body apparatus operates in resonation with the vibrations of consciousness in an unbroken continuum. It is only then that new karma generation ceases, since the ego-identity disappears. Past karma still has to be resolved however.
With perfect synchronisation between projection of consciousness into mind body and itself, there is no separation, although for purpose of garnering earth life experience, reflected consciousness as mind body may alternately feel incompleteness and wholeness as attention rotates between self (mind body) and Self (consciousnesses).
As for memory, it is recalled involuntary, being our own experience. It is again the stagnation therein, where mind predicts trajectories or outcomes, that takes our attention away from the here & now. If memory imagery is simply looked at nonchalantly, attention is unbound.
We are where our attention is at. Therefore, it is not the play per se that is the problem. Rather, the purpose is play. It is stagnation in ego cravings that causes identification and delusion. If attention keeps on flowing unfettered across enabled polarities, without clinging or pausing, ego or delusion disappears.
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Thoughtful post, US. Yours is coming from a different angle to mine - but interesting nonetheless. Thanks.
Yes, ego does have many interpretations, for this reason I tend to avoid using the word. Not discerning the (seemingly subtle) difference between the
happened self/psychological self and the
body-mind-individuated-matrix is often a source of much confusion in spiritual circles. The happened/psychological self is utterly
non-existent and is therefore a delusion - which can be seen through and dissolved. The body-mind-individuated matrix has a
relative existence which endures after it has been re-contextualised as a play/instrument of the whole.
This confusion is understandable because many nonduality teachers are not clear about this themselves. This leads some to the absurd conclusion that when the phantom self is seen through there would be (literally) no one there to make tea or participate on a forum. But this misses the vital point that the body-mind-matrix is no less instrumental in these relative things than it was when there was the additional burden of the psychological self.
Being free of the happened/psychological self is no hinderance to the natural and conventional functioning of the universe.