How To Crush Your Ego

Haha just kidding!

Well not exactly.

See the problem with this kind of language is that it makes the assumption that your ego is something external to you…

Some very real structure that needs to be bashed over the head and forced into obedience.

But it’s not.

All you really ever have to do is watch.

Basic as all shit right?

Yeah — but that’s precisely why most people won’t do it.

That’s precisely what makes it so difficult.

Look at it differently: you know that to get whatever you want in life you need to take action, right?

See only an idiot thinks success come to those who sit around.

So what’s the straight path to success?

Fucking. Work. Hard.

Wanna meet your dream girl?

Go. Fucking. Talk. To. Her.

Wanna get in shape?

Stop. Eating. Crap.

But that’s all too simple…

I can’t JUST do that!

Not poor little me! Golly no!

THERE IT IS!

See your ego is the result of you mistaking the story in your head for who you really are.

Which in turn causes you to build up all kinds of defenses…

And behaving in ways that are just NOT YOU..

All in the secret hope of protecting and preserving something that, when observed closely… Is simply not even real!

Are you the sum total of all your past experiences? Or something more?

In other words, are you the painting itself — strewn about randomly and unfinished? Or are you the canvas itself, which holds the plethora of colors and shapes?

Be still, look inside and find out.

“How do I know this to be true? I look inside myself and see” — Tao te Ching

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