Yes, but I'd also say thank goodness for the ego. It takes us, indeed ultimately just about compels us, toward the transcendence not only of itself but ultimately it shows us how we may also transcend the cosmos itself. How "far out" is that!Posted by Ikarusion (here)
this damn ego reaches far and wide.
Really the ego is an illusion, a construct, a fiction. But what an illusion. How masterfully it fools us. I've mentioned before that, being illusory, the ego is really just a vehicle for certain higher forces than itself. E.g., see post #1393:
https://projectavalon.net/forum4/show...pes#post766198
Our ego, which is every moment implicitly boasting of freedom, is in fact at every moment the slave, the toy and puppet of countless beings, powers, forces, influences in this vast multiverse.
And if we didn't have the ego to show us how unsatisfactory and unfulfilled the ordinary kind of mind, and heart, and will, are, I doubt we would as quickly appreciate the need to search with all our might for a higher kind of mind, and heart, somewhere deeper inside us. These higher kinds being no longer the agents of separation. And to appreciate the desirability of accessing and experiencing non-duality and integrating it into our lives even within the world of polarities that we live in.