Foolishness is Love’s humorous trademark
Foolishness and Humiliation
The ego thought system is based upon illusions which resulted from the fearful belief that we are separate from God, from the truth and from our source. Radical Re-education is not something we beg for. Rather we want something which promises to enhance the ego, not destroy it. Even if the ego is false, we still want to enhance it. Spiritual Psychotherapy also begins with the patient’s hope to return to normal, but somewhere along the way we begin to realize that normality is a trap, a disease, a danger to the person. Normality is what created the crisis and the suffering in the first place. We have to change horses in the middle of the stream. Since we believe we are the ego, we are on the defense against ego exposure and ego humiliation. Little do we realize that ego humiliation is a necessary step in change. If we do not allow ourselves to seem foolish and to endure ego humiliation with insight, we end up defending our illusions as precious to our very identity because we believe we are an ego.
Can we expect the ego to welcome Radical Re-education? Expect your ego to run like heck from radical re-education. The ego is a bundle of unconscious fears and guilts. The last thing the ego wants is truth and reality. "What you see and seem is nothing but a dream within a dream," said Edgar Allen Poe. And you are going to spend your time, energy and money for some Radical-Re-education which the ego doesn’t even want? Radical Re-education is not going to make us more popular. Radical Re-education is going to make you healthy, wealthy and wise, but that is not what the ego wants. The ego only appears to want that. The ego wants contention, friction, problems, and to win. The ego wants to be on top of the heap. The ego wants to be in control because it is in a very precarious position and cannot be otherwise. The ego wants you to believe that you are it. The ego wants you to believe that you are separate from God. The ego wants you to believe that you are this body and that this physical world is essential to your peace, happiness and freedom. Love includes the willingness to experience foolishness and humiliation on the path to real freedom.
The ego thought system is based upon illusions which resulted from the fearful belief that we are separate from God, from the truth and from our source. Radical Re-education is not something we beg for. Rather we want something which promises to enhance the ego, not destroy it. Even if the ego is false, we still want to enhance it. Spiritual Psychotherapy also begins with the patient’s hope to return to normal, but somewhere along the way we begin to realize that normality is a trap, a disease, a danger to the person. Normality is what created the crisis and the suffering in the first place. We have to change horses in the middle of the stream. Since we believe we are the ego, we are on the defense against ego exposure and ego humiliation. Little do we realize that ego humiliation is a necessary step in change. If we do not allow ourselves to seem foolish and to endure ego humiliation with insight, we end up defending our illusions as precious to our very identity because we believe we are an ego.
Can we expect the ego to welcome Radical Re-education? Expect your ego to run like heck from radical re-education. The ego is a bundle of unconscious fears and guilts. The last thing the ego wants is truth and reality. "What you see and seem is nothing but a dream within a dream," said Edgar Allen Poe. And you are going to spend your time, energy and money for some Radical-Re-education which the ego doesn’t even want? Radical Re-education is not going to make us more popular. Radical Re-education is going to make you healthy, wealthy and wise, but that is not what the ego wants. The ego only appears to want that. The ego wants contention, friction, problems, and to win. The ego wants to be on top of the heap. The ego wants to be in control because it is in a very precarious position and cannot be otherwise. The ego wants you to believe that you are it. The ego wants you to believe that you are separate from God. The ego wants you to believe that you are this body and that this physical world is essential to your peace, happiness and freedom. Love includes the willingness to experience foolishness and humiliation on the path to real freedom.
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