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8) Impatience: The ogre (the conditioned mind) knows it can’t command the past or the present moment, so it keeps your attention on the only thing it thinks it can control: the future.
If you become impatient when things don’t go "your" way, any subsequent expression of that impatience is a manifestation of the ogre. This is the lesser-mind offering you the illusion that you can manipulate a future outcome. Accepting that you may be unknowingly pursuing conditioned goals will help you to identify the ogre’s hand in this illusion.
0) Victim Mentality: This is a most common component of the ogre (the ego); it can be overheard daily in conversations everywhere in the world. The ogre speaks over 150 languages!
The ogre plays the victim so it can tell its story, which invariably is more troublesome and tragic than other people’s stories. The victim loves to talk about problems it has with other people (especially those it claims to love).
The victim suffers from the illusion that he or she is the only person in the world who worries about the future. The future (that the victim expresses so much concern about) is not that of humanity, but of the narrow, subjective personal world.
Victim mentality is closely connected to blame, procrastination, and laziness. It is common to overhear two victims trying to “one-up” each other with their tales of woe. Then they exchange a hug and return to their lives feeling good about themselves.
Selective silence ends the ogre's manipulation of your words. When you become aware that the ogre is using your vocal chords—simply stop speaking for a while
11)Complaining: Though complaining is closely related to victim consciousness, it also involves the ego talking about "the need for change." The ego's bemoaning includes the sharing of ideas about change and how it "might" occur, often with a focus on changes "they" should make, or changes that "should" be made to the "system".
Such transformations are then left to "those" who have "all the power", which invariable is never the speaker. If you encounter the ego in this way, it is best to walk (run) away.
16) Shame: Shame results from situations that have already passed in which you acted out of conditioned self-interest. The ego enjoys shame because it can declare that something is wrong with you as an individual. Being ashamed of yourself also plays nicely into the ego's love of victim- consciousness.
Shame can be positive as long as you do not recoil from it. You can learn from the shame of past experiences and allow wisdom to arise.
Repeating the same mistakes ad infinitum, however, is evidence that the lesser-mind is driving your motives, intentions, and ultimately your destiny.
Pay attention to the results you get. Adjust your intentions accordingly to produce an outcome where shame is replaced by your hand on the wheel of your life, and not the ego's.
Simply because a thought is present in your awareness does not mean it has any consequence for you or the world. Accepting thoughts as factual or significant without due diligence energizes the lesser- self. Because the lesser-self loves a wild and inventive mind, recognizing its hand in the process of thinking and letting go of it creates the conditions for awakening. Such attentive action, emerging as both words and deeds, renounces the lesser-self as the director of your destiny. Trust flows as the outcome when you interpret the random content of your mind free from the chorus of conditioned mediocrity and limitation.
9) Multiple Personas: "Niceness" is only one of many masks the little-mind wears when it seems to be suitable. The ego likes to switch your persona to suit the situation or relationship at hand. In this way, the ego feels it can manage life to its advantage.
When awakened, you show the world the One face of Self, not the many faces of the lesser-self. If you notice that you, or another person, shifts personas, you can be sure the ego is pulling the strings behind the scenes in an attempt to construct an outcome that it considers beneficial. This result may not be the most advantageous for you.
20) Thrill Seeking: The little-self likes that you feel alive so it often has you engage in adrenaline- soaked activities. Such extreme excitement and thrill seeking temporarily interrupt the deep, unanswered questions that rest in your conscious or subconscious and also help distract you from the inevitability of the ego's fate in physical death.
The consistent stimulation of adrenaline eventually has the effect of breaking down your immune system. The inevitable is then unavoidable.
24) Ambition: This is a more sinister manifestation of the conditioned mind, which goads us to accumulate for the sake of ourselves. Ambition often emerges when the ego decides to "make things happen". This constant striving towards worldly ambitions, however, is only recognized as success inside the playpen of the lesser-self. The blind ambition of ego reflects a profound suspicion about the goodness of life.
As we evolve through the stages of development, the unwholesome ambitions of the separate self-sense begin to soften and as our perspective grows, we learn to include freedom as one of our goals. This is an awakened ambition. When we learn to trust the essence of life, the need to endlessly accumulate things, friends, admonitions, fame or seek positions of power in the world of the "unawakened" looses its former luster.
A series on the shadow:
Part 2) The trap of the shadow: The shadow impels us to act unconsciously and we do so unfailingly! Do you know if the actions and reactions amid your spiritual path are driven by the hidden determinants of unneeded suffering; the shadow? If you think that you are clear about the motives behind your moves, then consider this story:
Early in his career, Freud attended a performance by a well-known hypnotherapist. As part of the act, a man was hypnotized and then asked to open an umbrella. Later, when questioned as to why he did this, the man responded with various reasons such as: "I wanted to see where it was made," or "To see if it functioned properly". Freud realized that the man was completely unaware of his true motives for acting. This experience was to become a founding component of Western psychoanalysis.
If you become impatient when things don’t go "your" way, any subsequent expression of that impatience is a manifestation of the ogre. This is the lesser-mind offering you the illusion that you can manipulate a future outcome. Accepting that you may be unknowingly pursuing conditioned goals will help you to identify the ogre’s hand in this illusion.
0) Victim Mentality: This is a most common component of the ogre (the ego); it can be overheard daily in conversations everywhere in the world. The ogre speaks over 150 languages!
The ogre plays the victim so it can tell its story, which invariably is more troublesome and tragic than other people’s stories. The victim loves to talk about problems it has with other people (especially those it claims to love).
The victim suffers from the illusion that he or she is the only person in the world who worries about the future. The future (that the victim expresses so much concern about) is not that of humanity, but of the narrow, subjective personal world.
Victim mentality is closely connected to blame, procrastination, and laziness. It is common to overhear two victims trying to “one-up” each other with their tales of woe. Then they exchange a hug and return to their lives feeling good about themselves.
Selective silence ends the ogre's manipulation of your words. When you become aware that the ogre is using your vocal chords—simply stop speaking for a while
11)Complaining: Though complaining is closely related to victim consciousness, it also involves the ego talking about "the need for change." The ego's bemoaning includes the sharing of ideas about change and how it "might" occur, often with a focus on changes "they" should make, or changes that "should" be made to the "system".
Such transformations are then left to "those" who have "all the power", which invariable is never the speaker. If you encounter the ego in this way, it is best to walk (run) away.
16) Shame: Shame results from situations that have already passed in which you acted out of conditioned self-interest. The ego enjoys shame because it can declare that something is wrong with you as an individual. Being ashamed of yourself also plays nicely into the ego's love of victim- consciousness.
Shame can be positive as long as you do not recoil from it. You can learn from the shame of past experiences and allow wisdom to arise.
Repeating the same mistakes ad infinitum, however, is evidence that the lesser-mind is driving your motives, intentions, and ultimately your destiny.
Pay attention to the results you get. Adjust your intentions accordingly to produce an outcome where shame is replaced by your hand on the wheel of your life, and not the ego's.
Simply because a thought is present in your awareness does not mean it has any consequence for you or the world. Accepting thoughts as factual or significant without due diligence energizes the lesser- self. Because the lesser-self loves a wild and inventive mind, recognizing its hand in the process of thinking and letting go of it creates the conditions for awakening. Such attentive action, emerging as both words and deeds, renounces the lesser-self as the director of your destiny. Trust flows as the outcome when you interpret the random content of your mind free from the chorus of conditioned mediocrity and limitation.
9) Multiple Personas: "Niceness" is only one of many masks the little-mind wears when it seems to be suitable. The ego likes to switch your persona to suit the situation or relationship at hand. In this way, the ego feels it can manage life to its advantage.
When awakened, you show the world the One face of Self, not the many faces of the lesser-self. If you notice that you, or another person, shifts personas, you can be sure the ego is pulling the strings behind the scenes in an attempt to construct an outcome that it considers beneficial. This result may not be the most advantageous for you.
20) Thrill Seeking: The little-self likes that you feel alive so it often has you engage in adrenaline- soaked activities. Such extreme excitement and thrill seeking temporarily interrupt the deep, unanswered questions that rest in your conscious or subconscious and also help distract you from the inevitability of the ego's fate in physical death.
The consistent stimulation of adrenaline eventually has the effect of breaking down your immune system. The inevitable is then unavoidable.
24) Ambition: This is a more sinister manifestation of the conditioned mind, which goads us to accumulate for the sake of ourselves. Ambition often emerges when the ego decides to "make things happen". This constant striving towards worldly ambitions, however, is only recognized as success inside the playpen of the lesser-self. The blind ambition of ego reflects a profound suspicion about the goodness of life.
As we evolve through the stages of development, the unwholesome ambitions of the separate self-sense begin to soften and as our perspective grows, we learn to include freedom as one of our goals. This is an awakened ambition. When we learn to trust the essence of life, the need to endlessly accumulate things, friends, admonitions, fame or seek positions of power in the world of the "unawakened" looses its former luster.
A series on the shadow:
Part 2) The trap of the shadow: The shadow impels us to act unconsciously and we do so unfailingly! Do you know if the actions and reactions amid your spiritual path are driven by the hidden determinants of unneeded suffering; the shadow? If you think that you are clear about the motives behind your moves, then consider this story:
Early in his career, Freud attended a performance by a well-known hypnotherapist. As part of the act, a man was hypnotized and then asked to open an umbrella. Later, when questioned as to why he did this, the man responded with various reasons such as: "I wanted to see where it was made," or "To see if it functioned properly". Freud realized that the man was completely unaware of his true motives for acting. This experience was to become a founding component of Western psychoanalysis.
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