All Lack is Ego, An Illusion

          Once upon a time it was mistakenly thought here that the longing one has for fulfillment or love or perpetual happiness or to find oneself is truth longing for truth. But, this cannot be so because truth is whole and it is never not truth, meaning, it is always whole. All lack (need or want) is a false idea, ego, appearing. Ego is a condition of perpetual lack and fear. It is never fulfilled. It is meant to be this because it is the idea of not-truth, or not-wholeness.

Some clients and readers will say, “I have this peace with me, I feel I will always be okay, that all is always good, but…I still sometimes doubt, I still get angry, I still get afraid, I sometimes feel lack, etc.” These are two different things in conscious awareness, not one thing slipping from wholeness to lack. The wholeness is real. It is what consciousness is. The doubt and fear and lack are ego; they are the illusion. Wholeness and lack never join, so ego’s sense of lack is never fulfilled. For lack and fear and longing to go away, ego must fall away.

There is confusion on this issue not only because one’s conscious awareness holds both truth (wholeness) and illusion (lack) but because the person, the illusion, has both “good” and “bad” experiences. And ego, which identifies with the person, wants, even expects, that the “good” experiences are true. So, it expects that when truth rises to conscious awareness, that the person will have only “good” feelings, one of them being fulfillment wiping out all sense of lack. But truth (pure consciousness) does not come to the person or to ego. It rises to conscious awareness, revealing conscious awareness to be pure consciousness, to be that which is perpetually whole. As conscious awareness is also the space in which the illusion of lack appears, unless ego falls totally away, the idea of lack will continue to appear.

Ego is an idea that has set up shop in consciousness. It fiercely asserts its reality, and this shows up as asserting that at least some of it and its world are real. Certainly, this strong longing must be real! Certainly, this intense love must be real! Ego asserts strongly and then asserts that the strength of a feeling means it is real. The mind is so conditioned to the idea that the strength of a feeling or experience makes it real that it takes a long time for this idea to pass from one’s mind even when ego is truly gone. So, it is hard even for advanced teachers to see that all feelings of go are not real. Nothing appearing in consciousness is real. As far as consciousness goes, only pure consciousness, or consciousness without ego and other appearances, is real, is truth.

So, the longing you may feel for truth, love, lasting happiness, or to know yourself, etc., is the emptiness of ego, not the emptiness of truth. Good news, yes? Because if truth could be empty, if it felt lost or longing, it would not be whole, it would be lack—it would be ego! Truth is wholeness and is the space in which the idea of lack plays out. But truth never enters the idea of lack. Truth is never not here and it is always whole, which is why you can always turn to it.


 

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