| Why do we have an Ego? | | | | that leads to enlightenment. We tend to look at the |
| Almost all spiritual guides say that we must eliminate | | | | ego as bad and oneness as good. However, the |
| or dispose of our ego before we can reach | | | | Taoist teach that nothing is either good no bad, it |
| enlightenment. If this is true, then why did our | | | | just is. So the ego cannot be bad or evil, it just is. So, |
| creator burden us with an ego to start with? Would | | | | why do we have to destroy it to get where we |
| it not have saved considerable struggle just to let us | | | | want to be? |
| be born with only a spiritual side and not have an ego | | | | If we look at the ego as one extreme and the all |
| to fight with all the time? A fight that most people | | | | encompassing oneness as the other, we see that as |
| seen to loose. | | | | humans living in physical bodies that our path lies |
| What is the ego anyway? The ego is that part of us | | | | somewhere between the extremes. When we were |
| that makes us separate from other people and | | | | created is was so that the creator could experience |
| things. It is the opposite of oneness that most | | | | life in as many different ways as possible. The ego |
| spiritualists are trying to achieve. The ego is, as the | | | | defines each of the infinite different ways. As long as |
| Taoist express, the ten thousand things. So then | | | | we realize that the ego is just part of the continuum |
| why do we need one? | | | | between oneness and the individual, then we can |
| The ego allows me to be different from you even | | | | stop wasting our energy fighting our ego and let out |
| though we are made from the same dirt. Namaste. | | | | lives flow naturally between the extremes of |
| The ego is built from our individual histories or | | | | ourselves as different and our selves as part of the |
| dharma. No two can be alike. | | | | whole. |
| The ego expresses the opposite of the unifying field | | | | |