Thank you for detangling and clarifying and inspiring again.
The quest for transparency in the world reflects our desire for inner transparency.
Witnessing the mental activity which had previously been automatic/ unconscious is the beginning of the end of the ego’s domination over us as individuals and it’s domination over us as a species and planet.
The impulse for transparency in the world naturally arises from our inner search for what is... because What is makes no distinction between inner and outer.
Our inner secretive autocrat — the ego—is the source of all the world’s secretive autocrats.
Hiding and deception—ancient survival techniques—are favorites for the body and the ego.
It’s nothing personal , the body and ego are both simply trying to survive. Chronic survival mode can be quite painful and cruel however.
The egoic dysfunction makes our survival brain centers chronically active, dominating/suppressing our other innate tendency for sharing/ caring/ collaborating.
Inner domination by the ego leading to domination by our ancient survival brain: the original domination from which all outer/worldly domination arises.
(By the way, the ego once seen may no longer technically be the ego but our continued unconscious behaviour patterns still largely have the same look and feel for quite awhile...and we are unconscious much of the time even after the initial breakthrough of witnessing our own internal voice and patterns. Semantic debates over this can fool people into believing the ego no longer dominates but the ego-derived dysfunction still directs much of our behaviors and identity until we know ourselves as vibrant spacious presence. So calling it the egoic pattern or dysfunction or ego-derived behaviors is still valid and useful.)
Thank you for detangling and clarifying and inspiring again.
The quest for transparency in the world reflects our desire for inner transparency.
Witnessing the mental activity which had previously been automatic/ unconscious is the beginning of the end of the ego’s domination over us as individuals and it’s domination over us as a species and planet.
The impulse for transparency in the world naturally arises from our inner search for what is... because What is makes no distinction between inner and outer.
Our inner secretive autocrat — the ego—is the source of all the world’s secretive autocrats.
Hiding and deception—ancient survival techniques—are favorites for the body and the ego.
It’s nothing personal , the body and ego are both simply trying to survive. Chronic survival mode can be quite painful and cruel however.
The egoic dysfunction makes our survival brain centers chronically active, dominating/suppressing our other innate tendency for sharing/ caring/ collaborating.
Inner domination by the ego leading to domination by our ancient survival brain: the original domination from which all outer/worldly domination arises.
(By the way, the ego once seen may no longer technically be the ego but our continued unconscious behaviour patterns still largely have the same look and feel for quite awhile...and we are unconscious much of the time even after the initial breakthrough of witnessing our own internal voice and patterns. Semantic debates over this can fool people into believing the ego no longer dominates but the ego-derived dysfunction still directs much of our behaviors and identity until we know ourselves as vibrant spacious presence. So calling it the egoic pattern or dysfunction or ego-derived behaviors is still valid and useful.)