The own ego is an illusion
Buddhism and the own perception
The own ego is an illusion, we all play a role in it.
According to Shakespeare, the world is only a stage.
Over time we have merged with the role we play, it has become "flesh and blood" to us. We think we are the person from the role, but have we ever been that person?
The task of a Chan (Zen) master is to peel off layer after layer of personality from other people, like an onion.
How do we perceive ourselves, how do we perceive the world around us? Who is responsible for the way we perceive ourselves and our surroundings? Do we perceive, that is, do we honestly see how we and our environment are?
I claim: NO
We perceive the world and ourselves from our role, so nothing is true, there is no truth in our perception, only how we want to see it, so we see it!
Our ego babbles before itself, so or so the perception has to be; our desires, hopes, expectations, needs and fears strike fully. We constantly develop our role, it grows together with our ego.
We are disappointed when desires, hopes, expectations and needs are not satisfied, our fears seem to come true.
Yes, this disappointment, what are we not always disappointed.
And who is responsible for all the disappointments in our lives?
WE SELF.
Our ego has developed desires, hopes, expectations and needs that seemingly cannot come true, we are inevitably disappointed because we do not accept life as it is, but constantly want events to happen as our ego parrots, according to the role.
So we have produced all disappointments in our life ourselves, all problems are home-made, self-produced.
It doesn't help to complain about problems, disappointments and failures to the gods.
Everything is produced by wrong perception, by the ego, which, according to our role, determines the thinking, the feeling, even the acting.
Cause and effect applies here. Which came first, the hen or the egg?
Our ego babbles, our role arises, wishes, hopes, expectations and needs are based on this.
AND THE WAY OUT?
RIGHT: ENLIGHTENMENT
NOTHING IS IN THE MIND THAT IS NOT FIRST IN THE PERCEPTION
- ARABIC PROVERB -
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