Ask: What do you feel in the absence of ego?

        “I am understanding that when ego falls away the self-concept or ‘host’ no longer values or feels connection to what seemingly gave it joy before. (?) For those of us not yet at that phase of the journey, could you give us a glimpse of what you do feel? Do you feel the Joy of the Divine? Simple inner peace? As hard as it is to be here in this transitory space at least there are the things (quite a lot of them) that I love. The sense I get from your newsletter is that those dissolve . But what are they replaced with? Some hope, please?” – BB 

Wholeness is here instead. I do not know if that gives you hope or not, because it is ego that hopes, and enlightenment does not come to ego. What we call enlightenment occurs because ego is no longer here. So, for ego, enlightenment is a terrible occurrence.

 

“Enlightenment is a destructive process. It has nothing to do with becoming better or being happier. Enlightenment is the crumbling away of untruth. It’s seeing through the façade of pretense. It’s the complete eradication of everything we imagined to be true.” – Adyashanti

 

Your ego can be comforted in this: Enlightenment is extremely rare. It is unlikely to happen to you.


Many become aware of truth, to one degree or another, without ego falling away. This is far more common. And this is what most want, because one gets to keep ego and all that ego values while mitigating the pain of ego. This is what a teaching like A Course in Miracles is for.


There’s a misunderstanding that everyone must attain enlightenment in this or through many lives. But, no. Nothing real is occurring. A life appears, it is what it is, it falls away. And truth remains untouched by any of it.

 

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