The Ego Causes Suffering in Our Lives. Here’s What You Need to Know About Its Death…
EGO DEATH
When we think of death we normally associate it with darkness, mourning, sadness decay. We spend our entire lives running away from it, avoiding and denying that we someday we will physically die.
The death I’ll be referring to is the most beautiful, precious, illuminating, awe-inspiring and shattering experience you could ever have. This experience is known as “ego death.”
Understanding what ego death is, we first need to understand what the ego is.
The ego is simply our sense of self or our identity as we perceive it to others as well as ourselves.
We will suppress, avoid, and deny “bad”, “unacceptable” or “wrong” experiences for fear we will be judged. The result of this feeds our “Shadow Selves” locking us in a more twisted, angry and perverted individual.
It is clear in our world today how living through the ego causes suffering. Depression, anxiety, mental illness, murder, hatred, greed, poverty, war and environmental destruction are all examples of internal suffering. Our internal suffering is solely the product of the ego that believes it is separate from others and life itself.
Ego death is the experience of transcending the ego, self or identity. This experience is the most mind-bending, awakening, awe-inspiring, peaceful and unconditionally loving experience you could ever have. Ego death is essentially an experience of embodying your True Nature completely (or returning back to who you really are.)
However, as much as ego death is indescribably beautiful, it can also be indescribably horrific. I have experienced both pure ecstasy and pure horror; both have helped me shatter my Ego.
Ego death can feel scary because it is the ultimate threat to the ego: complete loss of “self,” if only for a minute and the ego creates a defensive mechanism of intense fear. But, in order to progress on our spiritual journey, we must understand the reason of this fear, be mindful of it, and not permit it to limit us.
By myself I can do nothing; I judge only as I hear, and my judgment is just, for I seek not to please myself but him who sent me.
John 5:30
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