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?
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.
We Are Blindfolded by the Veil of Language
Once language is installed in our mind, and we identify with a body image via the name it has been given, consciousness finds itself detoured into an unreal plane of representation. From then on, an endless stream of mental chatter carries off the attention into memories, fantasies, reveries, and various sorts of delusional orientations, confusing projections with reality, and living through a fictional character, without noticing our alienation from the Real. Clear discernment and dispassion are necessary to extricate our awareness from the inauthentic self. This is the first obstacle that must be overcome on the spiritual journey.
The Gerbil Wheel of Self-Defeat
The ego today is programmed to alternate between hyper-activity and depressive self-attack or spacing out with passive distractions. These drives are modes of running away from the Real Self. The ego is never at peace. But there is a margin of overlap between the ego identification and presence in the soul. This is called the sattvic state. In this vibrational track, there is power to relax and enter the Heart to feel the balm of divine love. In this state, one can surrender to the Supreme Self and will receive the grace that enables liberation from the parasitic program of the ego.
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 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.
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.