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stress can also arise when you stop yourself from being who you are.

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The highest state of consciousness is also the simplest state of being. To be small in character requires great complication. 108 $degen

absolutely banger cy — life need not be so complicated, in fact I think, the ego emerges out of perceived complications.

If the ego were to disappear altogether, one could not experience life in the relative. The ego emerges due to the nature of consciousness to be conscious, and the ego is a prerequisite for individual experience.

I realize we're probably using the term "ego" in different ways here. Here I'm talking about ego as "I-ness". 

We could say that all problems come as a result of the mistake of the intellect, mistaking that duality is an ultimate reality.

Ego, or Ahamkar, as it is called in Sanskrit, is the difference between abstract, impersonal consciousness, and a conscious entity. Consciousness may be singular and absolute, but in order to have an experience of being conscious, it must conceptually separate itself...

What is “I-ness”? What is that exactly? Where in awareness might one find this “I-ness”??