Geoff-Allen
Resident megalomaniac
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I wasn't quite sure where to post this.
I found it interesting but your experience may vary -
Has anyone ever considered their ego might assume the role of spiritual advisor?
I found it here -
Here is an excerpt from Radical Happiness: A Guide to Awakening by Gina Lake about one of the guises the ego takes on. Sometimes the egoic mind (the voice in our head) takes on the tone of a spiritual advisor, which is called The Guru in this excerpt.
The ego can pretend to be good and wise, but that doesn’t make it so. It can sound like it has your best interests at heart, but the ego is a con man. Underneath the supposed wisdom is judgment, because The Guru is essentially The Judge, but on spiritual matters instead of mundane ones. The ego as The Guru is a con man because it cons us into thinking it’s guiding us spiritually, when it’s really creating the same contraction, discontentment, stress, and striving the ego is known for. When we are aligned with our true nature, we feel relaxed, at peace with life, content, happy, and loving. And we are naturally attuned to the wisdom of the Self (Essence). Listening to The Guru, however, doesn’t bring such peace and contentment, but only more striving and the sense that we still don’t measure up. The Guru shakes its finger at us, saying: “You’ll never be enlightened. You have to be more (fill in the blank)¬ and less (fill in the blank).”
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The Ego as Guru
All the best!
I wasn't quite sure where to post this.
I found it interesting but your experience may vary -
Has anyone ever considered their ego might assume the role of spiritual advisor?
I found it here -
Here is an excerpt from Radical Happiness: A Guide to Awakening by Gina Lake about one of the guises the ego takes on. Sometimes the egoic mind (the voice in our head) takes on the tone of a spiritual advisor, which is called The Guru in this excerpt.
The ego can pretend to be good and wise, but that doesn’t make it so. It can sound like it has your best interests at heart, but the ego is a con man. Underneath the supposed wisdom is judgment, because The Guru is essentially The Judge, but on spiritual matters instead of mundane ones. The ego as The Guru is a con man because it cons us into thinking it’s guiding us spiritually, when it’s really creating the same contraction, discontentment, stress, and striving the ego is known for. When we are aligned with our true nature, we feel relaxed, at peace with life, content, happy, and loving. And we are naturally attuned to the wisdom of the Self (Essence). Listening to The Guru, however, doesn’t bring such peace and contentment, but only more striving and the sense that we still don’t measure up. The Guru shakes its finger at us, saying: “You’ll never be enlightened. You have to be more (fill in the blank)¬ and less (fill in the blank).”
Comes from this site - loads of free stuff too! Plus look for her on YouTube ...
The Ego as Guru
All the best!
