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Are You Addicted to Your Ego?
Wholeness is safe; duality isn’t. Wholeness brings a seamless, unified world, but you will not know what that world feels like until you give your allegiance to a new operating system. Shifting from the old system to the new one is a process, one that each of us must commit ourselves to every day.
Our shared addiction to duality is total; it leaves nothing out. The good news is that no aspect of life is immune to transformation. Every change you make, however small, will be communicated throughout existence–quite literally the whole universe will be eavesdropping on you and lending you its support. From its point of view, the formation of a galaxy is no more momentous than the evolution of a single person.
A skeptic will protest that this new operating system is only a matter of perception, and that just seeing yourself as the creator of your reality doesn’t mean you are. But it does.
Reality shifts as you do, and when you change your perception of being separate, the one reality responds by shifting with you. The reason everyone doesn’t notice this is that the ego-based world with all its demands, pressures, drama, and excesses is highly addictive, and like any addiction it needs a daily fix as well as denial that there is any way out. By giving your allegiance to the one reality instead, you won’t end the addiction immediately, but you will begin to starve it. Your ego and personality, which give you limited awareness of who you are, will be put on notice that clinging and grasping must come to an end. Your conditioning from the past that told you how to win out over the outside world will no longer help you survive. The support you counted on from external sources such as family, friends status, possessions, and money will no longer make you feel secure.
Rest assured that perception is flexible enough to let go of the addiction to duality. Any event can be seen as coming from the creative center in oneself. At this very moment I can look at any part of my life and say “I made that.” Then it is only one step away to ask “Why did I make that?” and “What do I want to make instead?”
Adapted from The Book of Secrets, by Deepak Chopra (Random House, 2004).
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Wow I can't believe that person above me quoted Blake! As my English professor used to say, In Matters of Sensibility Westerners are Children of The Romantics.
As someone dealing with trauma, duality is indeed an unhealthy mind practice. It can sometimes make me question my own mental health, as in, "if I can't trust that I'm safe in this social situation ie, funeral parlour, wedding, then how can I trust that I'm safe anywhere." Duality puts a lot of emphasis on walls, meaning walls become meaningful and significant structures to which I'm emotionally attached instead of just physical barricades. I wish I had more to say about wholeness, except that I think it involves music.
Take Care Deepak,
Nicole Andrea Aube
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Awareness that we do not have to live in the "ego" driven world takes time, how do we help those that can't let go of the "addiction" the "selfishness" of ego? Eckhart Tolle's book "A New World" helps those that Deepak's books miss, are there any others that help those that are looking over the cliff, too afraid to jump off?
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I've written notes on the excerpts from The Book of Secrets, and will buy it, perhaps in Nov. for my own birthday.
I want to thank the person who posted the William Blake poem "Auguries of Innocence." I look forward to reading it again and again. It does indeed reflect Chopra's teaching.
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I would also agree with his inference that people are different than animals.
For example "The wanton boy that kills the fly shall feel the spiders enmity..." implies that natural predation is different than wanton human killing.
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Thank you Dr. Chopra!
This poem by William Blake I think summarizes non-duality very well...
William Blake - Auguries of Innocence
To see a world in a grain of sand,
And a heaven in a wild flower,
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand,
And eternity in an hour.
A robin redbreast in a cage
Puts all heaven in a rage.
A dove-house fill'd with doves and pigeons
Shudders hell thro' all its regions.
A dog starv'd at his master's gate
Predicts the ruin of the state.
A horse misused upon the road
Calls to heaven for human blood.
Each outcry of the hunted hare
A fibre from the brain does tear.
A skylark wounded in the wing,
A cherubim does cease to sing.
The game-cock clipt and arm'd for fight
Does the rising sun affright.
Every wolf's and lion's howl
Raises from hell a human soul.
The wild deer, wand'ring here and there,
Keeps the human soul from care.
The lamb misus'd breeds public strife,
And yet forgives the butcher's knife.
The bat that flits at close of eve
Has left the brain that won't believe.
The owl that calls upon the night
Speaks the unbeliever's fright.
He who shall hurt the little wren
Shall never be belov'd by men.
He who the ox to wrath has mov'd
Shall never be by woman lov'd.
The wanton boy that kills the fly
Shall feel the spider's enmity.
He who torments the chafer's sprite
Weaves a bower in endless night.
The caterpillar on the leaf
Repeats to thee thy mother's grief.
Kill not the moth nor butte
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