OVERCOMING THE EGO

“So when you recognize… And I know you all can recognize when the ego has you by the hind end, you all know it. Instead of playing along with it by going deeper and deeper and down and down, which it just loves… instead of doing that, do this, ‘I know this is either the energy of inertia or the energy of control. I desire to be rid of both. I want to go up,’ and make a concerted effort to go up. Now the ego’s not going to say, ‘Oh! Alright. Good-bye!’ It’s going to grab you by the feet and pull you down. It’s going to do whatever it can do to keep you from going up. And then is when you have to use your discernment – what is the voice in your head telling you? Is it saying, ‘You go for it. You get up there.’ Or is it saying, ‘Why do you want to bother doing that? You know that’s not going to work. You won’t be up there long enough to tie your shoes. So why do you bother to go?’

You have to listen to what voice is in your head. If it’s discouraging, down-putting in any way, you’re listening to the wrong voice. If you are hearing a voice that says, ‘Come to me, my child, I love you and I will protect you,’ then you are listening to the right voice. And everything, I care not what it is, in your world that you deal with every day, the same spiritual law applies. The same one: Detach. Detach. Detach from the result. That is the only way you can beat the ego.

08/21/2024 Blog. Nq-on Kar, A Tibetan Master, TRUE DETACHMENT FROM ILLUSION, April 29-21, 2013, Pg. 8. Copyright © 2013 Rev. Penny Donovan and Donald Gilbert. All rights reserved. Photo (c) Anderswiken - Dreamstime.com