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“THE ROLE OF THE EGO.”

The role of the ego is to protect the false-self, which it believes is “wounded” from further harm.

Therefore, it fights against anything that threatens it so that the value of its existence is not undermined.

And the fight must always be “won.”

For instance, if the value of one’s existence is on “being right,” and when one feels that one’s rightness is being denied, one tries to defend that rightness by directly or indirectly attacking the other party.

Or, if not fighting is seen as a victory, by avoiding the fight, they may secretly overcome someone who tries to undermine their existence value and enjoy a small victory (ego-self-satisfaction).

This identification with the wounded self, the so-called inner child, unknowingly pulls us out of the present moment, at the same time, intensely pulls us back into the past, and it remains maintaining reality that is nothing more than an illusion, what the mind (ego) sees.

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So why does the ego try so hard to protect the inner child?

It has with no concept of time, but for the day the inner child would be able to live its “self.”

The inner child dreamed of the day when it will be able to live its “self,” but actually in order to survive until then, it is forced to adapt to whatever environment is it placed in, thereby it grows up with a very strong sense of helplessness.

The environment is sometimes full of contradictions with the outside and the inside being at odds with each other, such as “love” is nothing more than a name, the ideal family image the mind (ego) dreamed up maintains through control using tactics and fear, etc..

In such an environment, the ego takes in the worldview and values seen by the inner child as the victim, and through the logical errors of its clumsy childish fact recognition, distorted cognitive patterns are unknowingly formed.

Thus, the ego, wanting to protect the inner child, reacts reflexively to the projected interpretation (i.e., illusion) in the present without realizing that it is projecting the past, and when there is a person with whom it has a common spiritual assignment (that person also sees the illusion of a projected past interpretation) and who is also elicited a reflexive response by that illusion, it actually comes to cause a realistic conflict ensues.

This is rather than a simple ego clash; in fact, this is how we share a moment of our spiritual learning with each other by resonating and attracting each other.

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As we come to be able to observe these facts as they really are through self-observation, we also gradually come to comprehend such the role of the ego.

Then, we come to just be present as the pure essence as continually observing and watching over the ego, even while it projecting the past and making a fuss inside, and accepting its feelings as they are, we can heal it by acknowledging the helplessness or sadness that it has been carrying around as it is.

Furthermore, we can purely observe even the ego, which still reacts reflexively to something now, as the essence, and recognize the fact that there is a spiritual assignment there, and use it as an opportunity to begin self-inquiry.

In this way, when we are able to unconditionally forgive our inner ego for its behavior and even its existence, we will be able to leave its identification and completely bring its role to an end in our lives (sublimate).

Then, it will bring us fundamentally end of reacting to anything reflexively.

At this point, we will become grateful even to the ego.

For instance, even if there is still a subsequent internal fuss from the remaining inner child, the choice to accept the ego as it is, no longer to participate in the emotional drama, and to politely decline to identify with it, becomes quite natural.

In this way, the pure essence, detached from the ego, will be able to even enjoy the human awkwardness of daily life as if it were a comedy.

Thus, we become a natural state of pure being which is not react to anything as the essence, without any effort or any intentional non-react, as the spiritual teaching that “we should not react to anything,” but not by doership of control the ego intentionally with reason, or by shutting out reality in order not to react although we do not understand the reason for that.

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It is the responsibility of each of us to end the “ego’s role” one by one, which will bring about a deepening of maturity as human beings and further depth of spiritual awakening. (OM 🙏)

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