Ego is a social phenomenon--it is society, it is not you. But it gives you a function in the society, a place in the hierarchy of the society. And if you remain satisfied with it, you will miss the whole opportunity of finding the real self.
Have you ever noticed that all types of miseries enter through the ego? It cannot make you blissful; it can only make you miserable. Ego is hell. Whenever you suffer, just try to watch and analyze, and you will find, somewhere the ego is the cause of it.
The longing of the mind is to be extraordinary. The ego thirsts and hungers
for the recognition that you are somebody. Somebody achieves that dream
through wealth, somebody else achieves that dream through power,
politics; somebody else can achieve that dream through miracles, jugglery,
but the dream remains the same: "I cannot tolerate being nobody."
And this is a miracle-- when you accept your nobodiness, when you are just
as ordinary as anybody else, when you don't ask for any recognition, when
you can exist as if you are not existing. To be absent is the miracle.
Have you ever noticed that all types of miseries enter through the ego? It cannot make you blissful; it can only make you miserable. Ego is hell. Whenever you suffer, just try to watch and analyze, and you will find, somewhere the ego is the cause of it.
The longing of the mind is to be extraordinary. The ego thirsts and hungers
for the recognition that you are somebody. Somebody achieves that dream
through wealth, somebody else achieves that dream through power,
politics; somebody else can achieve that dream through miracles, jugglery,
but the dream remains the same: "I cannot tolerate being nobody."
And this is a miracle-- when you accept your nobodiness, when you are just
as ordinary as anybody else, when you don't ask for any recognition, when
you can exist as if you are not existing. To be absent is the miracle.
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