Introduction
In our dreams or internal visions, that usually occur while
being a little drowsy during meditation, we can see our egos. Each ego is seen
as having a distinct form. The form that an ego takes can certainly vary. It
can take the appearance of something decent to something very grotesque. And
furthermore the form that they take varies between individuals.
However, the good news is that there are certain forms that
are common among individuals and these forms are archetypical. For example, the
most common form that egos appear with seems to be the animal form, and this
makes sense as the ego is something inhuman and animal in nature.
There are also archetypes for each type of ego, for example
the egos of lust can take the appearance of animals such as pigs and snakes, maybe
even dogs or monkeys.
The Egos Have a Look of Hatred
If in the dream or experience you are able to see the way
the ego looks at you, you will see that the ego looks at you with disdain and
even hatred, sometimes with in trepidation (depending how strong our resolve to
eliminate it is).
With such looks we can discern something about the particular
and general nature of the ego that even though it is our essence but
conditioned essence, it is polarised in such a way that it does not like us or
is against us.
The Egos Don’t Like Us
This is the strangest thing to learn that the ego does not
like us. After all it is us just that it has been conditioned. The conditioning
that it has does not like us for the reason that we do not feed it, or we do
not allow it full reign of our human machine or that it knows us, the essence,
will one day eliminate it and it fears its end, why, because it has been
conditioned not to die.
Another reason why the ego does not like us is because it is
selfish, it does not take us into account, it can only take into account its own
conditioning.
Working Out What Ego It Is
We may see many animal and other forms and we may even
strongly suspect that they are egos but the problem could be that we are not
sure which egos these forms represent.
The best way to find out is to remember our feeling or
intuition during the experience or dream. Usually our intuition tells us which
ego we are looking at. If we can’t remember we then have to work it out by
analogy.
We have to find the characteristics that the animal we saw in
the experience has in life here on Earth, and then relate these characteristics
to those of a particular defect or ego.
What You Can Learn
We can learn much about the particular nature of an ego, such
as its: motivations, strength, function and logic when we see it in our dreams
or in internal experiences.
By observing its look, the way it acts, what it says and it
appearance we can gleam a lot of valuable information. The appearance is very important
as it is usually symbolic and revealing. But most of all what is the most
instructive is what it does, as what it does it the pure unadulterated action
of that ego.
Appearance of the Egos of Lust – Pigs or Snakes
The egos of lust usually take the appearance of pigs or snakes.
The more astute seductive egos of lust take the appearance of snakes and the rough
and crude pleasure seeking egos of lust take on the appearance of pigs. As just
like a pig rolls in the mud they revel in sensations becoming more and more
full of unclean, unwholesome or unhealthy desires.
Conclusion
After seeing an ego in a dream or in an internal vision
during meditation it is worth analysing the experience to extract as much
information as you can from it as this information is valuable to your efforts
or work of comprehending that defect.
End.
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