To Try to Be Awake is to Get Good at Separating from the Ego from Moment to Moment – (1732)

Separate

Just as the title says, while we have the ego, to be conscious is to take the inner action of separating our consciousness from the processes of any ego within our psyche.

To keep being conscious we have to continually do the above. It makes sense then that a person who is trying to be conscious will get very good at separating his or her consciousness from the processes of their egos.

To be awakened is not an issue of the how many egos there are, but the conscious action or ability to separate what there is of consciousness from any egoic process.

End (1732).