…there you are!
But even that is an experience of the mind. Outside your mind could be nothing more than undulating plasmatic phlegm or a ham sandwich. Nevertheless, that phlegmy ham sandwich has come to MEAN the “world” to you and so you experience it AS your “world.” Make no mistake, since the experience is IN you, it’s always YOUR world (although you stupidly tend to blame others for the content of your experience).
And in that experience of a “world,” you have imposed inequality. Thus, a ham sandwich is less meaningful than Filet Mignon and Filet Mignon is less meaningful than sex and sex is less meaningful than money and money is less meaningful than sickness and sickness is less meaningful than death (go ahead and impose your own order to things, since you do anyway). In your experience sometimes pain is more meaningful than pleasure and often war is more meaningful than peace, while suffering often completely overshadows the meaning of joy. In this hierarchy some people mean very much to you, while some mean less and some mean nothing at all. Some mean more because of your hatred, while some mean more because of your love.
But what's really “there”?
The ego-self demands something be “there” for which to reference ITSELF in contrast with.
You live in a fluctuating, but very “meaningful,” Hierarchy of Delusion and that hierarchy supports an inequality of value. Are you “awakened to truth” but see me as ignorant? Then you’re victim to your own delusional hierarchy. You may apply meaning to your unique experiences by labeling them “true,” but it is very unlikely that truth supports your inequality and that experience is nothing more than your own MEANINGFUL delusion.
The ego-self impregnates your mind with contrasting experiences. In fact, the ego demands other egos through which to define itself as egocentric. It’s NOT your individual identity you need dissolve… but MINE.
It’s all very simple. You define your ‘self’ based on your defining me, since it is how you define me that will determine the parameters of your interactions with me, thereby, defining you. In other words, you define your ‘self’ by the meaning you superimpose upon your experience of ME. It is from the meanings you superimpose upon me that you will adjust your ‘self’ in relation to me, thus, locking you into a perspective, or “story,” from which you behave and act upon your experience. And because I am doing the same in accordance to my defining “you,” we are both in a constant state of flux based on the numerous definitions we impose on others and our continuous adjustment accordingly. Thus, is the world made REAL.
You make the world and then adjust to it, negating that the experience is your construction from the start because you applied the MEANING.
Therefore, there is NO fixed or direct ego-self that you can reference as “you,” only alternating currents of delusional meanings projected upon the whole of your experience. The ego needs to envision other egos for which to self-define, otherwise, it could NOT know itself at all. You need me through which to define your ‘self,’ just as I need you in turn, because we both define one another.
So best to dump that idea of a well developed ‘self ‘down the potty. You're about as unique as a drop of water in the oil polluted ocean.
Would you like to transcend the Hierarchy of Delusion and experience the pure bliss of complete egolessness?
Best you jettison the ego you dumped on me first, because until that experience is erased…
…your ego is alive and kicking, Yo!
Artwork by Scott G Brooks - "The Chosen One"
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