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To break the hold of our ego over our life; our actions and beliefs. we need to first look at our ego without judgment. Our individual egos are a fragmented erroneous belief, within mind.
We believe we are our egos, but we are not. Consider this: when we look without judgment and guilt at our individual egos in action, then who is doing the looking? It cannot be the ego itself, but the mind — or better, the decision maker in our mind The viewer is then looking at the ego. Then you realize there are two voices within. One real and one unreal. The following passage from the Course provides a clear description of this evaluation and looking process and how central it is to the practice of the Course:
No one can escape from illusions (ego) unless he looks at them, for not looking is the way they are protected. There is no need to shrink from illusions, for they cannot be dangerous. Let us be very calm in doing this, for we are merely looking honestly for truth. We must look first at our ego to see beyond it, since we have made it real. How else can one dispel illusions except by looking at them directly, without protecting them?
In this looking within we start realizing our ego is not who is looking at it. With that awakening we can then start breaking the egos hold over our life.
- Definition ego: the belief in the reality of the separated or false self, made as substitute for the Self Which God created; the thought of separation that gives rise to sin, guilt, fear, and a thought system based on specialness to protect itself; the part of the mind that believes it is separate from the Mind of Christ; this split mind has two parts: wrong- and right-mindedness; almost always used to denote ” wrong-mindedness,” but can include the part of the split mind that can learn to choose right-mindedness.
- (Note – not to be equated with the ” ego” of psychoanalysis, but can be roughly equated with the entire psyche, of which the psychoanalytic ” ego” is a part.)
