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Originally Posted by youngnostic
the reason why I ask is because I don't have anything in me that I can identify as an 'ego' which leads me to question: what if I don't have an ego?
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It is not a question of having or not having an ego but of what kind of ego one has. There are 2 kinds of ego or self, psychological and physical. They also operate in different modes, identification and functional. Which mode dominates?
It is possible to have no psychological ego, and that is the aim of all spiritual practices, modern or traditional.
It is not possible to have no functional ego as this is tied up with the living body. As long as we are alive we will have a functional ego and there is nothing wrong with this at all. It simply locates something, body and activity, in space and time.