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C’mon Use Your Essence! - (1177)

When Questioning the Ego

When we question the ego, we can use our mind or our essence. The better one to use is our essence.
Say you observe a statement coming from your egos of lust and vanity that says “I have to make the body look good to impress the opposite sex and others”.

We may question this with our mind and ask is this statement really true? At the start our mind may say of course it is true, we have a body to impress others. We may get a shock and then make an effort to think deeper, wider and with the esoteric truths or teachings and we may think the following: “No that is not really true we have the body to manifest our Being, to be in creation to learn and to work the self-realisation of our Being.”.

That is quite good, though do you really know that this what the body is for. It is better than ego’s purpose for the body, that is for sure but do you know that really in your essence. If we do, then those two egos are finished.

The blue genie of Aladdin's lamp is the Essene unbottled from the ego.

Question with Essence

There is another way to question and it is to use our essence. An example of that would to be go deep inside of oneself and be within oneself far away from the mind and ask ourselves do I know that this statement (whatever it is) is true within myself and by myself, do I honestly know that it is true or not. Forget what I suppose or infer or deduce or reason or prefer but what I know in my essence.

This is so simple and natural that we often don’t do it, we think it is too simple and we resort to using the mind thinking that to think with the teachings is better and more sophisticated. Though the danger of doing this is that we veer away from what we really know and only come to conclusions with the mind about we know of the teachings with our mind.

Obviously though we ask our essence this question and answer this question about the body with the essence we are going to come to the conclusion to receive the answer that will be either “I don’t know really” or “no it is not for that”.


Conclusion

If we tackle the statement of the egos with our essence a definite change is produced. That change is that we don’t believe in the geo or in its statements or logic.

End (1177).

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