I agree. Ego is something we cannot easily divorce. It's a dance with identify. If you ever experienced ego death got separate from it it's very confusing. I spent a year not speaking English stuck in a foreign country. At first it was liberating. Like most people my ignorance told me enlightenment was on the other side. I thought without ego I got to know exactly who I was. After the benefits wore off I started to forget who I was. Not literally but my role in society as well as my society itself was ripped from me and I became frayed. You have to make peace with the ego.The story we tell ourselves as well as the story we assume others tell themselves. Coming to terms with who you are or more precisely the experiences that hold us to our story. To think about what others think is the first layer. Trying to come to terms with who you are. The ego will always be there, it's a part of the psyche.
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Originally Posted by Unseeking Seeker
At this juncture
of our egoic structure
it may perhaps be more useful
for our evolution
to identify the perception perceiver
Real or a delusional deceiver (?)
As for what we think
what others think
The source of such thought
is with a view to what (?)
Egoic perception ...
Endless self deception
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