One of the best explanations i've heard of ego. It appears to fit seamlessly with psychological and with religious (Christian) terminology. Nice wording and nice job. Thanks Mr. Spira.
As I often say "How many takes are needed to get the scene right?"...Hence the word 'mis-take' in the movie on the screen of life..."If it shouldn't have happen, it wouldn't have happen"...WoW...Thanks for posting...Peace, I A (nama-rupa) M !!!
The word ‘unconscious’ implies dualism. This is meant as no offence to anyone, but ‘teachers’ will say what is right for the ‘students’ at that moment, and that may be why those words came through Tolle. Question: how can anything be unconscious? That actually implies non-existence- consciousness = existenstence therefore unconconsciousness = no existence. The ego for many (including myself) exists, but its existence is a self created illusion yes? So it exists and is therefore consciousness yes? In that case, we are the creator of ego (and all), so perhaps a truer statement may be ‘the ego doesn’t matter’. As is what is implied by Rupert here :)
@@JonathanJonesYoga The way Tolle tends to use the word "unconscious" is that he alludes to the tendencies of egoic mind activity to identify with form and such. Essentially, when he speaks of "unconsciousness" he means being entangled in and identifying with the mind activities.
Tolle is blind to his own Spiritual ego. YOU CAN NOT UNDO EGO. Aslong as you have this human experience, ego will arise. It is NOT a mistake that needs to be fixed. These are greedy teachers selling you absolutely nothing. It is a dissociative practise made to put yourself to a deep sleeping state. Self-enquiry is for the dying, suiting when the body is on its last days. ALLOWANCE OF EGO IS THE WAY. Total nonresistant allowance of the ego is enlightenment. Just know what is behind the ego-creation. Why would the creator try to undo its own creation!? This is utter madness that leaves you crippled and mindfucked.
@@TiqerArts I think that’s what Tolle’s fundamentally teaching: allowance means just being aware of it as opposed to letting it unconsciously run your life.
What is conscious of ego and the creator of it? Awareness, sure. But awareness without ego does absolutely nothing. Trying to undo/get rid of ego is just a form of spiritual bypassing. I did that shit for years. Transcendence of ego is seing it for what it is, but awareness still has to let ego drive the human, otherwise human becomes immobilized.@@acook213
I think he understates the allure of ego. The ego is power-seeking and insatiable. It's at the center of every human interaction. It's even scanning this video to see what power can be derived from it; i.e. any insights that might impress your friends and relatives.
That is a good point. Your estimation could be said to be correct, but also note the dramatic charge that the terminology you used gives to this fictional entity. It is almost like a trailer to the movie of The Ego: Insatiable. Of course, the ego is essentially oneupmanship and thrives on duality itself. So, we could also note that the ego does some wonderful, creative, inspiring and marvelous things, as well. If the ego is as you describe it, does the understatement serve to diminish the ego by way of ed-emphasizing it? Or does give too much attention to it and focusing on its negative aspects feed it? In that sense, my points are rhetorical and giving it some though might be useful.
It depends on how "strong" your ego is and how much you identify with it. Your ego was scanning the video to see what it could take from it to impress someone. My ego was doing no such thing. My ego affects me in different ways, like reminding me of my dysfunctional childhood. But in actuality the ego isn't real and the only "power" it has is how much YOU (awareness) give to it. If you are identified as a separate self, your ego may be very controlling of you and seemingly powerful with its desires and insatiable need. But if you realize the Real You, God itself (love, awareness, peacefulness, constant), then you see the ego for what it is: a bit annoying as an illusion but having absolutely no power over You.
just my opinion, but I think Mooji means, Duality is ok for a time, as is staying in personhood, or ego, but to stay in that forever?, is like staying in first grade elementary school forever, eventually, the goal is to progress, into nonduality, go beyond personhood, and eventually merge with the Higher. Some call that merge with Divine, Consiousness, Moksha, Nirvana etc, matters not what you call it, Love.
2:38 - 3:05 ... it is all a celebration of god's (never thought "I" would use term god, huh) infinite potential. All of it is. Only from the point of an Ego is an Ego or any unpleasant "thing" a problem. Switch the perspective of the world to be in accordance of what you really are. Whenever that seems lost, inquire into what you really are . Now "I" understand ... ☼
If consciousness is full, Infinite and eternal what is the need for it to limit itself to limited mind, finite body and temporary body? what is the need for it ?
Maybe this is a mystery that our minds cannot solve - they are too limited. But I would ask: according to you, why people at carnival time mask themselves to appear some character? Namaste
Well its impossible to grasp consciousness's needs with a human brain-its like trying to measure the depth of the ocean with a foot-scale-you will certainly come up with the wrong conclusions !
I agree. Life is a classroom,the ego personality/personhood, is the necessary student for a time, Divine (if u will) Consiousness, is the teacher, that plays thru ego, to evolve itself, you, and consciousness. namaste'
Well, that is a duality, right? So, when there is duality there is a finite we can posit as "versus" the infinite. So, the duality is thought to be reality and that is the source of all polar opposites. Obviously, that view, (of the intellect analyzing and categorizing experience) reveals and sustains itself as splitting, dividing, cutting up. It is rather simple, but seems difficult or complex. The end of the reliance, belief and insisting by the assumed separation of self and other is found in the recognition of their unity and that is ineffable. In that case, it is always infinite, (a constant) and the illusion of the finite is a veil, in a sense. The distractions of the forms could be called an amnesia as a temporary forgetfulness. If you forget something, does that mean it was not known? This is a very useful subject to contemplate, so rather than take my brief illustration for anything, continue with the question for yourself.
Ernest Weber I guess I just don't understand why infinite awareness would play this game with itself of "forgetting." Why this game of separate objects and separate selves? And if awareness is not dependent on the brain, why bother with brains? Or hands or eyes or ears? It seems as if awareness has gone to very great lengths to convince itself that it is not what it actually is.
@@Nitephall It seems that the reply to your questions could be known only by the awareness itself. Why are you trying to know it by reasoning on it? I would suggest you to let your reasoning fall and to let your mind be totally silent. Probably you will see something; maybe the reality that Rupert was trying to convey through his words. Namaste
He explains it about 30 seconds later in the video. However, I can give an example. There was a movie "The Prince and the Pauper" where a very young Prince is really bored with his formal and ceremonial life, and happens to notice that he looks just like another kid who is poor. He secretly arranges for them to switch lives for awhile, and for the first time, gets to play in the dirt and do undignified and dangerous kid things. We can say that the Prince has thereby taken on a "limitation on his true nature" as royalty, but it is not a problem for him - just the opposite. So, when Awareness limits itself and becomes the ego, it is similar to that. In Hinduism, this is called "The Play of Consciousness:.
Ego is part of ourself and an essential part of ourselves. Without an ego, Rupert couldn’t be on RUclips speaking to us. Without an ego, no one would be able to write the ridiculous comments that ego don’t exist. Yes an unhealthy and unconscious ego is something else entirely but don’t throw the baby out with the bath water. ‘Spiritual’ people or spiritual egos seem to have a very unsophisticated view of ego
I'd say ego is like a knot on a thread. A rather tangled one. :-) It makes it difficult for the thread to move through the fabric of reality - that is suffering, evil etc. But still it is made of the thread and nothing else. And reality is also woven from the same thread. You see? Everything is the same material - reality, "I", ego - but in different constellations and relationships. The process of healing and awaking is untangling the knot. It can be very difficult as it is with knots. Funny is that at the beginning there was just a thread and at the end there is again only a thread. Nothing is added and nothing is missing.
Rupert asks- “is the ego really that bad?” This man is a genius and I really respect him, but sometimes he sounds so innocent as if he hasn’t really been out in the world. When he talks of suffering his metaphor is a man losing his girlfriend. She says the ego can be vicious- for me Suicide comes to mind, torture, gang rape, the makers of war- there is intense suffering way beyond “losing your boyfriend”.
content vs. form argument. suffering is suffering no matter the form. love is love no matter the form. anything with a spectrum of severity (this action is abhorent, this action is tolerable, this action is downright sinister) is a ploy to drown you in a story of who is right and who is wrong, the ego's hook line and sinker. to label rupert as innocent implies that he is not a bad person. believe me, i'm sure he has some skeletons in his closet. it's the peace we have made with the bedlam of our lives that make us seem 'innocent'
***** Emptiness in thought : the transience- not fixed pretentious fullness(i.e pretending to exist as what it describes by adding emotional finite shape), and also the spaciousness behind the feel of thought energy. It's difficult to describe, but easy to find by relaxed breathing through the feel of thought through the head, so it becomes lighter and lighter, becoming as just transparent labeling energy that doesn't obscure- i.e equanimity in thought. Emptiness in sight - the zero point everywhere you look that allows everywhere in Emptiness in body feel - the feeling of space carried through from between relaxation and contraction manifestation.
i dont understand when he says, *you have to fall asleep in amsterdam to take the form of jane in the streets of london* someone can explain it pleaseee
Rupert uses the analogy of Mary (Infinite consciousness, or Mary's infinite mind) and Jane (the finite mind or the apparent individual) to explain that all there is to Jane, is Mary's mind. All there is to Jane, is an apparent limitation or localization, a contraction of Mary's infinite mind. So when he says Mary has to fall asleep in Amsterdam to take the form of Jane in the streets of London, he means that the infinite, which knows only the infinite, has to and willingly forgets it's infinite nature in order to manifest the differentiated and multiplicity of experience. He often says that the infinite only knows the infinite, and the finite only knows the finite. Another way of explaining it would be, in order to see "something", there has to be a perspective. A perspective is a limitation, a possibility or a way of seeing. We can only perceive one thing at a time. We can only think of a situation, in one way at a time. This is the finite; possibility. So Jane is a possibility, a perspective. Mary is seeing itself, and seeing by itself, sees nothing but itself. If I would give my own analogy here, it would kind of be like the finite mind or "Jane" is like a TV-channel. Mary is the TV. The TV by itself has no content; whenever there is content, there is only ever one show or TV-channel on at a time. So undifferentiated being, or the infinite, and differentiated being or the finite; multiplicity. Sorry for my rough and bad explanation. I couldn't answer more clearly in this moment of writing. So essentially, infinite consciousness is infinite, and therefore there is no multiplicity or objective experience; all it knows is itself, infinite, limitless, colorless, formless being. And in order to start dreaming or manifesting itself and explore it's own infinite possibilities, the infinite has to "fracture" itself into infinite possibilities. Each fragment is a localization or perspective of consciousness. Consciousness has to forget its infinite nature in order to manifest itself as "this or that" experience, and it forgets itself in its own creation. He explains that we can trace our self back to our essential nature, which is infinite consciousness at any time.
The ego isn't bad, it's an illusion, unreal. We call the ego the small self or the imaginary self. Ego is a name we assign to God unaware of himself. In other words, ego is the title given to the temporary state of unawareness. It's not bad or real, it's simply a temporary state of confusion. That's why, "it acts so bad." Because it is unaware of its true Self. To say that awareness, knowingly" limits itself is silly and contradicts Jesus, The Buddha, Krishna, Socrates and every great spiritual teacher. All advanced teachers agree that "sin" or what we call the "ego," is ignorance. In other words, being unaware. How does awareness become unaware? Through it's innate innocence and expiration of infinity. As it explores infinity it has the capacity to explore everything, even the impossible. In that exploration it explores the possibility that it is not itself. That is where the "self," is imagined. The challenge humanity then has is to return to Reality, the true "Self."
Pedro Zaragoza Awareness by definition is aware of itself. It can not be unware of itself. If you then mean that there is a possibility that it can be unaware within realm of possibility, then we have contradiction. Could you be more precise?
Pedro Zaragoza Awareness is all there is. But if you assume that awareness is a possible outcome of "realm of possibilities" then you have a completely different model.
Excellent point. Awareness or consciousness is aware, yet it is not aware of its whole Self. It's as if a person is aware of their role as a mother but not as a sister. As we advance in awareness we see a more wholesome and complete view of ourselves. That's what we refer to as self (ego) or Self. The ego (self) is how we see ourselves as limited or imperfect beings. However, our true nature and essence, all of us, have within us a Perfect and complete Self. Life and the spiritual path is about becoming aware of that Whole and complete Self.
Connor Lepp great point. The ego becomes an integral part of conscious evolution, yet it is not necessary since it doesn't really exist or do anything. With his you bring up an essential and profound point, does life evolve from the bottom up or did life begin from the top and then involve? If you believe in biological evolution, then you believe that it began from nothing to something. I believe that life evolves from Divinity, as perfect and complete, and then through exploration we "fell." The fall however, as I know it was not a bad thing, but as a natural consequence of exploring infinite possibilities. Life began as perfect, Whole and complete, as Divine and pure, through exploration we contemplate separation and that's the fall. So the idea that we are separate, is actually the birth of the illusory ego. Does that make sense? Por evolution from here on is the awareness that the separate self is unreal, only a temporary illusion, and that when we realize the Self, our true essence.
Connor Lepp to be accurate one needs to be aware of the fact that the ego is not real. There is zero reality or truth to the ego. The ego is an imaginary identity that we hold because we are unaware. It's like believing that we are a short because we temporarily wear one. So wanting to know your Self through the shirt will only confuse us. To get to know the Self go directly to the essence , the Self. Duality is very confusing because it portrays us as two separate beings and then we don't know what we are. We are pure light, but we see ourselves as darkness or imperfection. If you study the imperfection you get more confused because that's not what we are. If you delve into perfection, then you begin to become aware of your true Self. I pray that's helpful.
@@pewdiepiesmosh2055 A B was literally giving you a significant distinction, a pointer if you will. Reflect, Be. Don't "think and react" to what was written. You Are That which you are searching for.
One of the best explanations i've heard of ego. It appears to fit seamlessly with psychological and with religious (Christian) terminology. Nice wording and nice job. Thanks Mr. Spira.
As I often say "How many takes are needed to get the scene right?"...Hence the word 'mis-take' in the movie on the screen of life..."If it shouldn't have happen, it wouldn't have happen"...WoW...Thanks for posting...Peace, I A (nama-rupa) M !!!
"The ego isn't wrong; it's just unconscious." - Eckhart Tolle
The word ‘unconscious’ implies dualism. This is meant as no offence to anyone, but ‘teachers’ will say what is right for the ‘students’ at that moment, and that may be why those words came through Tolle. Question: how can anything be unconscious? That actually implies non-existence- consciousness = existenstence therefore unconconsciousness = no existence. The ego for many (including myself) exists, but its existence is a self created illusion yes? So it exists and is therefore consciousness yes? In that case, we are the creator of ego (and all), so perhaps a truer statement may be ‘the ego doesn’t matter’. As is what is implied by Rupert here :)
@@JonathanJonesYoga The way Tolle tends to use the word "unconscious" is that he alludes to the tendencies of egoic mind activity to identify with form and such. Essentially, when he speaks of "unconsciousness" he means being entangled in and identifying with the mind activities.
Tolle is blind to his own Spiritual ego. YOU CAN NOT UNDO EGO. Aslong as you have this human experience, ego will arise. It is NOT a mistake that needs to be fixed. These are greedy teachers selling you absolutely nothing. It is a dissociative practise made to put yourself to a deep sleeping state. Self-enquiry is for the dying, suiting when the body is on its last days. ALLOWANCE OF EGO IS THE WAY. Total nonresistant allowance of the ego is enlightenment. Just know what is behind the ego-creation. Why would the creator try to undo its own creation!? This is utter madness that leaves you crippled and mindfucked.
@@TiqerArts I think that’s what Tolle’s fundamentally teaching: allowance means just being aware of it as opposed to letting it unconsciously run your life.
What is conscious of ego and the creator of it? Awareness, sure. But awareness without ego does absolutely nothing. Trying to undo/get rid of ego is just a form of spiritual bypassing. I did that shit for years. Transcendence of ego is seing it for what it is, but awareness still has to let ego drive the human, otherwise human becomes immobilized.@@acook213
I think he understates the allure of ego. The ego is power-seeking and insatiable. It's at the center of every human interaction. It's even scanning this video to see what power can be derived from it; i.e. any insights that might impress your friends and relatives.
That is a good point. Your estimation could be said to be correct, but also note the dramatic charge that the terminology you used gives to this fictional entity. It is almost like a trailer to the movie of The Ego: Insatiable.
Of course, the ego is essentially oneupmanship and thrives on duality itself. So, we could also note that the ego does some wonderful, creative, inspiring and marvelous things, as well.
If the ego is as you describe it, does the understatement serve to diminish the ego by way of ed-emphasizing it? Or does give too much attention to it and focusing on its negative aspects feed it? In that sense, my points are rhetorical and giving it some though might be useful.
It depends on how "strong" your ego is and how much you identify with it. Your ego was scanning the video to see what it could take from it to impress someone. My ego was doing no such thing. My ego affects me in different ways, like reminding me of my dysfunctional childhood. But in actuality the ego isn't real and the only "power" it has is how much YOU (awareness) give to it. If you are identified as a separate self, your ego may be very controlling of you and seemingly powerful with its desires and insatiable need. But if you realize the Real You, God itself (love, awareness, peacefulness, constant), then you see the ego for what it is: a bit annoying as an illusion but having absolutely no power over You.
@@garyd1638 Yesss
Did you notice how he spoke over her, interrupting her? Definitely EGo.
@@garyd1638 your ego is clearly superior to my ego.
Woah....That was eyeopening
A temporary limitation of your true nature...
just my opinion, but I think Mooji means, Duality is ok for a time, as is staying in personhood, or ego, but to stay in that forever?, is like staying in first grade elementary school forever, eventually, the goal is to progress, into nonduality, go beyond personhood, and eventually merge with the Higher. Some call that merge with Divine, Consiousness, Moksha, Nirvana etc, matters not what you call it, Love.
@@brianlinville439 Yes. This, and what Elian wrote is true. Mooji is my "main" teacher. I can't describe the Light and bliss when I met him
Everything is in there have a reason mostly for survival
2:38 - 3:05 ... it is all a celebration of god's (never thought "I" would use term god, huh) infinite potential. All of it is. Only from the point of an Ego is an Ego or any unpleasant "thing" a problem. Switch the perspective of the world to be in accordance of what you really are. Whenever that seems lost, inquire into what you really are . Now "I" understand ... ☼
If consciousness is full, Infinite and eternal what is the need for it to limit itself to limited mind, finite body and temporary body? what is the need for it ?
That is the Leela, rupert is explaining.
Maybe this is a mystery that our minds cannot solve - they are too limited. But I would ask: according to you, why people at carnival time mask themselves to appear some character? Namaste
Because God so loved the world that he gave his only Son
@@LoseBellyFatNow0 Can you please translate these words into an understandable meaning? (I know where they come from ...)
Well its impossible to grasp consciousness's needs with a human brain-its like trying to measure the depth of the ocean with a foot-scale-you will certainly come up with the wrong conclusions !
thank you! you are Love
I agree. Life is a classroom,the ego personality/personhood, is the necessary student for a time, Divine (if u will) Consiousness, is the teacher, that plays thru ego, to evolve itself, you, and consciousness. namaste'
How can awareness "realize a part of it's infinite potential" if it's already infinite?
Well, that is a duality, right? So, when there is duality there is a finite we can posit as "versus" the infinite. So, the duality is thought to be reality and that is the source of all polar opposites.
Obviously, that view, (of the intellect analyzing and categorizing experience) reveals and sustains itself as splitting, dividing, cutting up. It is rather simple, but seems difficult or complex. The end of the reliance, belief and insisting by the assumed separation of self and other is found in the recognition of their unity and that is ineffable.
In that case, it is always infinite, (a constant) and the illusion of the finite is a veil, in a sense. The distractions of the forms could be called an amnesia as a temporary forgetfulness. If you forget something, does that mean it was not known?
This is a very useful subject to contemplate, so rather than take my brief illustration for anything, continue with the question for yourself.
Ernest Weber I guess I just don't understand why infinite awareness would play this game with itself of "forgetting." Why this game of separate objects and separate selves? And if awareness is not dependent on the brain, why bother with brains? Or hands or eyes or ears? It seems as if awareness has gone to very great lengths to convince itself that it is not what it actually is.
Midiwave Productions Thank you. I will read up on that.
@@Nitephall It seems that the reply to your questions could be known only by the awareness itself. Why are you trying to know it by reasoning on it? I would suggest you to let your reasoning fall and to let your mind be totally silent. Probably you will see something; maybe the reality that Rupert was trying to convey through his words. Namaste
i honestly think pure awareness is bored and that’s why lol
"don't see the ego as a problem, just as a limitation on your true nature" Well, if that isn't a contradiction, I don't know what is!
He explains it about 30 seconds later in the video.
However, I can give an example. There was a movie "The Prince and the Pauper" where a very young Prince is really bored with his formal and ceremonial life, and happens to notice that he looks just like another kid who is poor. He secretly arranges for them to switch lives for awhile, and for the first time, gets to play in the dirt and do undignified and dangerous kid things.
We can say that the Prince has thereby taken on a "limitation on his true nature" as royalty, but it is not a problem for him - just the opposite.
So, when Awareness limits itself and becomes the ego, it is similar to that.
In Hinduism, this is called "The Play of Consciousness:.
@@TheKstuart ... Lyla.
That's hardly a contradiction. He's just implying to view ego as a part of ourselves without it not needing to be there.
Ego is part of ourself and an essential part of ourselves. Without an ego, Rupert couldn’t be on RUclips speaking to us. Without an ego, no one would be able to write the ridiculous comments that ego don’t exist. Yes an unhealthy and unconscious ego is something else entirely but don’t throw the baby out with the bath water. ‘Spiritual’ people or spiritual egos seem to have a very unsophisticated view of ego
I'd say ego is like a knot on a thread. A rather tangled one. :-) It makes it difficult for the thread to move through the fabric of reality - that is suffering, evil etc.
But still it is made of the thread and nothing else. And reality is also woven from the same thread. You see? Everything is the same material - reality, "I", ego - but in different constellations and relationships.
The process of healing and awaking is untangling the knot. It can be very difficult as it is with knots. Funny is that at the beginning there was just a thread and at the end there is again only a thread. Nothing is added and nothing is missing.
Beautiful explanation, love this
Oh Rupert, how we do love thee! ♥︎♬
its an operating system....the Chief of Staff of the mind...
Rupert asks- “is the ego really that bad?”
This man is a genius and I really respect him, but sometimes he sounds so innocent as if he hasn’t really been out in the world. When he talks of suffering his metaphor is a man losing his girlfriend.
She says the ego can be vicious- for me Suicide comes to mind, torture, gang rape, the makers of war- there is intense suffering way beyond “losing your boyfriend”.
Pedro Gonzales he’s not trying to tell her to tolerate suffering, he’s just telling her to understand the nature of the ego & finite mind
content vs. form argument. suffering is suffering no matter the form. love is love no matter the form. anything with a spectrum of severity (this action is abhorent, this action is tolerable, this action is downright sinister) is a ploy to drown you in a story of who is right and who is wrong, the ego's hook line and sinker. to label rupert as innocent implies that he is not a bad person. believe me, i'm sure he has some skeletons in his closet. it's the peace we have made with the bedlam of our lives that make us seem 'innocent'
It is so simple and therefore so true
Ego is required for living right? Because our true nature is awareness which doesnt have a personality or physical body.
No it isn't required :)
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Thank you
Makes 2 things Ego vs No Ego. Pass through it and find its emptiness then, and ego(thought form) is softened.
***** Emptiness in thought : the transience- not fixed pretentious fullness(i.e pretending to exist as what it describes by adding emotional finite shape), and also the spaciousness behind the feel of thought energy. It's difficult to describe, but easy to find by relaxed breathing through the feel of thought through the head, so it becomes lighter and lighter, becoming as just transparent labeling energy that doesn't obscure- i.e equanimity in thought.
Emptiness in sight - the zero point everywhere you look that allows everywhere in
Emptiness in body feel - the feeling of space carried through from between relaxation and contraction manifestation.
***** What does it mean in Buddhism ?
OM and all that.
i dont understand when he says, *you have to fall asleep in amsterdam to take the form of jane in the streets of london* someone can explain it pleaseee
Rupert uses the analogy of Mary (Infinite consciousness, or Mary's infinite mind) and Jane (the finite mind or the apparent individual) to explain that all there is to Jane, is Mary's mind. All there is to Jane, is an apparent limitation or localization, a contraction of Mary's infinite mind. So when he says Mary has to fall asleep in Amsterdam to take the form of Jane in the streets of London, he means that the infinite, which knows only the infinite, has to and willingly forgets it's infinite nature in order to manifest the differentiated and multiplicity of experience. He often says that the infinite only knows the infinite, and the finite only knows the finite.
Another way of explaining it would be, in order to see "something", there has to be a perspective. A perspective is a limitation, a possibility or a way of seeing. We can only perceive one thing at a time. We can only think of a situation, in one way at a time. This is the finite; possibility. So Jane is a possibility, a perspective. Mary is seeing itself, and seeing by itself, sees nothing but itself.
If I would give my own analogy here, it would kind of be like the finite mind or "Jane" is like a TV-channel. Mary is the TV. The TV by itself has no content; whenever there is content, there is only ever one show or TV-channel on at a time. So undifferentiated being, or the infinite, and differentiated being or the finite; multiplicity.
Sorry for my rough and bad explanation. I couldn't answer more clearly in this moment of writing.
So essentially, infinite consciousness is infinite, and therefore there is no multiplicity or objective experience; all it knows is itself, infinite, limitless, colorless, formless being. And in order to start dreaming or manifesting itself and explore it's own infinite possibilities, the infinite has to "fracture" itself into infinite possibilities. Each fragment is a localization or perspective of consciousness. Consciousness has to forget its infinite nature in order to manifest itself as "this or that" experience, and it forgets itself in its own creation. He explains that we can trace our self back to our essential nature, which is infinite consciousness at any time.
"if it shouldn't have happened - it wouldn't have happened". I like that. Sounds similar to the phrase "there are no mistakes"
Brilliant video explanation ty
Thanks! This - retrace to Self from ego....
Essence!❤
A beautiful explanation, thanks :-)
Ego is not a mistake. It is a limitation.
Ego is an ultimately insignificant obstacle to surmount, which loses all power once we learn to ignore it - permanently! LOL.
Why doesn’t he explain to her that it’s her ego who is talking?
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Return to the root and the meaning is found!
Talking about the enemy within herself is ridiculous as it’s her ego who is saying those words!
Vicious to vicious ego can be vicious but its also will be limited and far from our true nature but its still only a temporary limited seriousness
Anyone else see the rainbow halo around Rupert's head?
I’ve got such a crush on this man! Lol😅
A necessary evil...soon to be unnecessary, as the demiurge ✡ Yaweh ✡ is defeated.
Negative ego is a mistake (I hate myself). Positive ego is a lie (“I love myself”…when there is no self).
Advaita fundamentalist nonsence
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Ego = Cause of great unnecessary suffering
Then you could say:
ego is a kind of a side effect of the limitation of consciousness?
Love to all.
The ego isn't bad, it's an illusion, unreal. We call the ego the small self or the imaginary self. Ego is a name we assign to God unaware of himself. In other words, ego is the title given to the temporary state of unawareness. It's not bad or real, it's simply a temporary state of confusion. That's why, "it acts so bad." Because it is unaware of its true Self.
To say that awareness, knowingly" limits itself is silly and contradicts Jesus, The Buddha, Krishna, Socrates and every great spiritual teacher. All advanced teachers agree that "sin" or what we call the "ego," is ignorance. In other words, being unaware.
How does awareness become unaware? Through it's innate innocence and expiration of infinity. As it explores infinity it has the capacity to explore everything, even the impossible. In that exploration it explores the possibility that it is not itself. That is where the "self," is imagined. The challenge humanity then has is to return to Reality, the true "Self."
Pedro Zaragoza Awareness by definition is aware of itself. It can not be unware of itself. If you then mean that there is a possibility that it can be unaware within realm of possibility, then we have contradiction. Could you be more precise?
Pedro Zaragoza Awareness is all there is. But if you assume that awareness is a possible outcome of "realm of possibilities" then you have a completely different model.
Excellent point. Awareness or consciousness is aware, yet it is not aware of its whole Self. It's as if a person is aware of their role as a mother but not as a sister. As we advance in awareness we see a more wholesome and complete view of ourselves.
That's what we refer to as self (ego) or Self. The ego (self) is how we see ourselves as limited or imperfect beings. However, our true nature and essence, all of us, have within us a Perfect and complete Self. Life and the spiritual path is about becoming aware of that Whole and complete Self.
Connor Lepp great point. The ego becomes an integral part of conscious evolution, yet it is not necessary since it doesn't really exist or do anything. With his you bring up an essential and profound point, does life evolve from the bottom up or did life begin from the top and then involve? If you believe in biological evolution, then you believe that it began from nothing to something. I believe that life evolves from Divinity, as perfect and complete, and then through exploration we "fell." The fall however, as I know it was not a bad thing, but as a natural consequence of exploring infinite possibilities.
Life began as perfect, Whole and complete, as Divine and pure, through exploration we contemplate separation and that's the fall. So the idea that we are separate, is actually the birth of the illusory ego.
Does that make sense?
Por evolution from here on is the awareness that the separate self is unreal, only a temporary illusion, and that when we realize the Self, our true essence.
Connor Lepp to be accurate one needs to be aware of the fact that the ego is not real. There is zero reality or truth to the ego. The ego is an imaginary identity that we hold because we are unaware. It's like believing that we are a short because we temporarily wear one. So wanting to know your Self through the shirt will only confuse us. To get to know the Self go directly to the essence , the Self. Duality is very confusing because it portrays us as two separate beings and then we don't know what we are. We are pure light, but we see ourselves as darkness or imperfection. If you study the imperfection you get more confused because that's not what we are. If you delve into perfection, then you begin to become aware of your true Self.
I pray that's helpful.
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So, basically, God is lonely and schizophrenic.
@@LinguisticLifeform then what's your unlimited so called perspective?oh wait you too are limited lol
@@LinguisticLifeform yeah just expose people but not tell what the actual truth is keep it up
@@pewdiepiesmosh2055 A B was literally giving you a significant distinction, a pointer if you will.
Reflect, Be. Don't "think and react" to what was written. You Are That which you are searching for.
Huh?