The Ego is an Artificial Mental Object—You Are Beyond the Mind
Accept the character your body is playing, but do not be deceived that the ego mind is you or even represents you. Realize the awareness that abides deeper within than thought, and this will lead to freedom.
Related Teachings
Awareness is Always Free
You are awareness. Awareness is not an object and has no qualities. Awareness does not hold on to anything, and thus need not let go of anything. But the character that believes it is aware—and which does not know its own true nature—will be re-absorbed into pure awareness at the moment that is destined. But nothing real ever changes.
Freedom is Impossible—Yet Real
You don’t know how severely you are limiting yourself by your own false beliefs—until you have eliminated them. Don’t rule out the impossible. We may all be in for major surprises as this historic moment unfolds.
The Perfect Transparency of the Witness
When thoughts disappear through one-pointed focus on the inner light, the attention is absorbed into the ecstatic vibratory energy field of pure awareness, and the subjective sense dissolves into the object and becomes the bliss of liberation. Total surrender of all narratives is required to sustain that beatific state.
The Ego’s Psychological State is Not Relevant
There is no need to buy into psychoanalytic mythology on the spiritual path. Once you recognize that only Consciousness is real, and that you are That already, you can drop the character’s narrative entirely, and simply focus on the silent Presence that underlies all thoughts and impulse. Soon, the whole character structure will vanish. The Emptiness of formless awareness without boundaries will emerge. The Emptiness was never born, never created. Once established in the stillness of Emptiness, the space of awareness will be filled with Light, Joy, Wisdom, and Power. Why not take the fast track?
The Condition of the Ego is Irrelevant
All that appears is the Light of the One God-Self. You cannot not be That. It is irrelevant whether the character you are playing in this theodrama is awakened to your true nature. This will happen at the perfect moment, regardless of the ego’s condition, and regardless of the efforts made by the fictional self to transcend its illusory status as an individual person. The best strategy is acceptance—and focus on the Real.
Freedom is Mind at Peace
Shunyamurti answers a question about the relationship between love and freedom: When you break free from the ego, which is an enemy of love, the truth becomes clear, the pathway to peace opens. and endless love carries you all the way to ultimate freedom.