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Originally Posted by KonrD111
How can you kill your ego to be happy in life and unveil the truth by stopping your mind?
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Ego : delusion that the mind body construct as identity (false self) is all there is
When is delusion dispelled : upon actually seeing and so knowing our true self
How to arrive at this knowing :
disassociating from the transience of the external by shifting our attention to the internal, by resting ego (identity/doer) thought in silence & stillness, allowing our latent intuition within us to connect to Universal consciousness. we become the immaculate witness to movement of thought and sensory perception ... looking without judging, anticipating or interpreting. we flow in the now continuum, attentive without any agenda, save connecting with Universal consciousness without defining, distorting or limiting it by conjectural imagination.
oscillation of attention between egoic thought and silence slowly slows down upon our choice to prioritise the internal over the external. such a prioritisation evidently requires a voluntary acceptance that we cannot find the eternal in the ephemeral and therefore reject fears, desires, attachments as the glue of maya which enmeshes our attention in illusions, resulting in stagnation. this rejection must be by voluntary acceptance since otherwise the attention shift would be forced, a repression or even sublimation of our energy actuated by a doer ... and the doer is always the ego.
our internalisation is simply a choice to walk along the path that takes us back home instead of getting lost in the wilderness. hence effortless. to employ an oft employed quote ‘we are then in but not of the world’. we engage in all activity with zest and zeal without stagnating. Just like the heartbeat or breath ... we flow in continuous renewal in an aspect of childlike innocence.
Importance of resolve :
a seeming paradox since resolve implies conviction by a thinker so thinking akin to a doer doing, which we do not want. yet, as stated, there is a momentum of ego energy already in motion and so our attention will tend to oscillate.
ego will fuel doubts like : what if all this is a hoax? are we deluded into searching within for something which may be fictional, imaginal? if it was meant to be, why are our senses externalised?
“You cannot discover new oceans unless you have the courage to lose sight of the shore.” —André Gide
What is happiness : Divine Love manifesting first as bubbling joy and then self existent boundless ineffable bliss in permanence pouring out as compassion in purity. unconditional - meaning no condition in the incessant outpouring, no calculation, no expectation of reciprocation or even recognition. no judgment, no discrimination.
What is the truth : the truth is known by actually becoming by blossoming upon imbibing & assimilating the omnipresent Divine Love energy. it is a happening, an unfolding by grace and so is best distanced from narrow egoic intellectualisation, speculation or discussion, even though talking about it may act as a prompt to steer our fickle attention upon the path. hence usefulness of satsang, prayer, meditation, discourses etc. ... in fact we are then drawn towards one or more of such activities automatically.
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