#EgoTranscendence

[universal-void]

Liberation

I am writing this blog to explore the topic of liberation—liberation from fear, anxiety, pleasures, riches, and desires. Everyone seeks freedom. History shows us that no one is content with being enslaved and always strives to escape the chains of bondage.

It has been deeply ingrained in our minds that we should constantly strive to acquire wealth and pleasures. But the most important question is often overlooked: Will these riches bring lasting happiness? Is this happiness truly permanent?

True liberation lies in freedom from attachment, fear, jealousy, and greed. It is also about liberation from the need for someone else to validate our worth or to feel loved. Ask yourself: Do I need someone to make me feel loved, or can I experience love within myself? Do I need someone else to bring me happiness and joy, or can I be content on my own?

In the last few years of my life, I have learned to find happiness in my own company. Is attachment to a person—or the need for someone else to feel loved—really necessary? When we become attached to someone or something, we depend on it to fulfill our needs and desires. This attachment creates a bond that ties our emotions to their actions, giving them power over our inner peace. But how can we free ourselves from these emotions? Are these emotions truly ours? Or are we merely observers of them?

When we examine closely, we might see that both the giver and receiver of these emotions are the same. Are we genuinely attached to people or objects, or are we attached to the emotions they evoke in us? One way to find liberation is to recognize our unity with eternity. When we realize our oneness with the universe, we begin to see ourselves in everything and everyone. This perspective allows us to detach from transient emotions—emotions that arise from the past of the body we inhabit. In this way, we spread love both within and everywhere we go.

When you recognize your oneness with the universe and nature, you begin to see pain and suffering as temporary and tied to the material world. You can distance yourself from emotions and pain. The truth is that suffering is a natural part of existence; it has no final resolution. Emotions like jealousy, loneliness, anxiety, fear, and anger will ebb and flow, constantly shifting. The only true liberation is to see yourself as part of a greater consciousness, as an inseparable part of the whole. There is no individual consciousness—only unity.

When you feel an emotion, you are not truly experiencing it—it is simply a phase of life passing through the body you inhabit. Isn't this recognition—the awareness that you are not the emotions themselves but the witness of them—the true path to liberation?

[air-atman-in-ravi]

Past Trauma Is A Drama, Due to Karma ⏳

Why do we experience past trauma? We experience it due to Karma. When we realize that all the trauma in our life are because of our own past Karma, we start to see everything as a Drama. Realization of the Truth makes us open our real eyes and realize that this whole world is a huge cosmic stage and everything is a cosmic drama. We come to life to play our part and once that is done, we leave the stage or depart from this world. When we realize that we are all souls who are having a human experience, we stop suffering the pain of the body, misery of the Mind and the agony of the ego. We transcend our Karma and enjoy this drama called life as a witness. We attain Liberation from all suffering.

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[christinemonk]

According to (Maslow, 1971, p. 269) “Transcendence ascribes the most inclusive and the highest or the holistic level of human consciousness that is behaving and relating to, as ends rather than means. This directly connotes to oneself and to a significant other that might include humans, nature, other species, and the cosmos.”

When Abraham Maslow gave the pyramid of needs, he placed self-actualization at the top and concluded that this is the highest goal for humans to achieve. He said that when humans have fulfilled all their basic needs of Food, Water, Shelter, Safety, Family, Friendship, Self-esteem then they move to Self- actualization, where they fulfill all the needs of luxury. But later on, he contradicted himself and said that self-transcendence in altruism and spirituality is the ultimate infinite or the “peak experiences.” These experiences frequently induce strong positive emotions such as happiness, peace, and a well-developed sense of awareness.

[rebirthofmothersoul]

Is EGO AS NAUGHTY AS WE THINK?

What is EGO? There is the psychological definition, the contemporary spiritual meaning and then there is the acronym that I am drawn to - Edging God Out!

If ego is a process of dissociation and splitting off - in psychological language- then perhaps that definition is not working for us in our life process. Spiritual jargon refers to the ego as the attempt to prevent us from staying fully grounded and open and that part of us that does not conform to out hoped, fears, or the way we thought it was going to all turn out. 

We blame EGO for so much of our human slips and slides. The question is are our definition of EGO disconnecting and separating us from ourselves, is EGO the link that was meant to bridge our higher selves with our lower selves or the innocent child open and vulnerable?

“If we want to get to know more about egoic process, we can start by getting really curious about those thoughts, emotions, and sensations that we will do just about anything to avoid. We can reverse engineer this inquiry by making the commitment to noticing when we are caught in habitual, addictive behavior, including complaining, blaming others, being self-aggressive, becoming caught in shaming ourselves, as well as the more generic list of overeating, getting lost in the internet, unconscious sexuality, hiding out from intimacy when we long for it more than anything (minimizing and pretending we ‘don’t care’), numbing ourselves with a marathon weekend of Game of Thrones, rapid-fire shots of tequila in the face of boredom or emptiness, etc.

As we notice this, with kindness we can make the choice to slow way down. And get really curious, daring to care more about our actual experience than in our interpretations of it, or in getting away from it. With new levels of openness and love – in a way that is totally non-shaming and honoring of how fragile this human heart truly is – we can ask ourselves: I wonder what emotional state I’m trying to avoid? In all of my aggression toward myself, turning from my experience, in all of the storylines about who did what to me and how wretched I am, etc… would I be willing, even for a few minutes, or seconds, to meet that feeling that has been trying to reach me for so long? To invite that one into the home of my heart, to come close, and to see what it is he or she has to say? To replace the abandonment with intimacy. In one moment, to make a commitment to end the aggression.

In this way, we can use the surges of ‘ego’ – whatever it is – as an invitation and fiery reminder to infuse our experience with empathy, with warmth, with compassion, and with presence. Declaring to ourselves and the world that all of our inner experience is valid, it is all the flow of energy and information, not pathological, and worthy of our care and holding. In this sense, ego is an invitation into presence. We can re-craft the narrative of ego in new and more integrated ways, rather than using that concept to indulge in re-enactments of the shame and blame that was hurled at so many in our families of origin. To use ‘ego’ as a special wrathful sort of doorway into wholeness.”

ACTION: 

Today, create the intention to pause with what you have come to define as your EGO. Discard all associations with it, release definitions and simply be the grownup you think you are and let it sit on your lap or lay next to you for a few moments today. Breathe, listen and be still with the so-called EGO moments. Perhaps we may learn to not be so quick to judge it, belittle or diminish it, avoid it, or blame and shame it. You and I may discover the best parts we ever knew we had. Don’t throw the bath water and the baby out. Be still with the immediate experience of EGO. It wants to take you and I to our heaven. 

Excerpts from…. alovinghealingspace.blogspot.com