"you cannot dissolve or get rid of the ego. " You; pure awareness; can. The ego can't dissolve/get rid of itself, but you are not the ego. "You can only notice it and let it go" Notice what? The ego is literally identification with thoughts. Stop identifying with thoughts and the ego does not exist. Identification with thoughts is not a part of you; it has nothing to do with pure awareness. It has not always been here; and it will not always be here. It can stop right here right now if you were to simply be aware of being aware and stop identifying with any thought, emotion, sensation or perception that temporarily appears within the unchanging ever-present consciousness that you are. "Unless you can achieve a total and complete focus of being in the moment, constantly, the ego will be there. " Who can achieve this? The one who will achieve this is the ego. You can't achieve being in the moment, you can only realize you already are the ever-present, unchanging consciousness that only is in the present moment completely focused aware of being aware. The ego is identification with thoughts; if you don't identify with thoughts; it isn't there. It has nothing to do with reality; it doesn't even exist. "So maybe it's not about dissolving the ego, but instead working on it to make it more attuned and similar to your higher, complete self, who doesn't expect rewards, doesn't get angry easily, is loving, etc?" Working on what? Working on identification with thoughts? That makes absolutely no sense. It appears you are having a misconception of what ego is. Ego is literally just identification with thoughts that contain content of personal identity. That is literally the only thing ego is. Ego = The unchanging, ever-present source of all creation mistakenly identifying with temporary thoughts, emotions, sensations and perceptions which are modulations of the source of all creations. The ego does not exist; it is a word we give to the activity of identifying with temporary phenomena which are not you in essence; they come and go unlike the ever-present consciousness that you are. There is no way to make identification with thoughts attuned and similar to the complete self; because the complete self is beyond thought. How are you going to be attuned to something beyond thought using thought? It is absolutely impossible. Thought by nature are always expecting something; that is their business. You can't just think "I don't expect anything" because you already are expecting anything by thinking this. How can thought not get angry easily? Who is getting angry in the first place? The ego; identification with thoughts is automatically easily angry, expecting, never-loving; the ego, personal identity is extremely insecure because it is not real in the first place. How can identification with thoughts be loving? Thoughts by themselves are not loving by nature. They are thoughts. Love is the recognition of the source of all creation recognizing itself. That is loving. How can a thought appearing within the source of all creation be loving? It is a thought; it is not alive; it can't be loving. It doesn't know love. How can thought know love? Love is beyond thought; thought/ego will never know love. All thought knows is thought. "I think the ego is a very crucial part of our existence here because it is a teacher. It highlights what parts of ourselves/our ego we need to work on and shows us why those things breed more negative than positive outcomes." That is just a thought. The "I" that thinks it; is a thought. What the thought appears to think; is just a thought. It has nothing to do with reality. The ego is not a teacher; again; it is only identification with thoughts. Identification with thoughts has nothing to do with teaching or being a teacher; it does not exist as an entity to teach you anything. Identification with thoughts does not highlight anything except that you are identifying with thoughts and therefore are experiencing and believing yourself to have things to work on. The source of all creation has nothing to work on; it is pure and perfect. It is only thought that wants to work on thought; it is delusional and will try and work on itself forever with no avail because it does not exist and changes all the time. You can't work on the ego because the ego is identification with thoughts. What are you working on exactly? It makes no sense. Negative or positive outcomes for whom? Only thought perceives "negative" or "positive" according to its own personal projections. The source of all creation; that which you truly are does not perceive "negative" or "positive" because it does not view the world personally and has nothing to lose nor nothing to gain. Please donate any amount (at the moment no money to even buy food) to support the existence of this body so it can continue being an instrument of god to share wisdom, peace, love, joy, compassion with you 🙏🏻:
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