Written by Mathew Naismith
The ego is exceptionally versatile and
adaptable, with the ability to be conditioned to just about any circumstance or
environment. I suppose this is why humans are able to adapt to various
environments, as depicted in human history. Ego is simply a conscious aware of
one's own existence or being or even importance. One example of this is being
aware of our own importance to our children, each other or society as a whole,
of course egotism, which is an exaggerated
opinion of our own personal importance, is something else.
As often depicted in human history, the ego
can be conditioned to numerous environments, including environments such as
spiritual/religious, material, conflictive, harmonious, loving, hateful, and so
on. The ego can also be conditioned to an environment of intuition or desire.
As the ego can't be conditioned to conflict and harmony, love and hate,
simultaneously, the ego can either be conditioned to be more intuitive or
desiring. It is interesting why the ego can't be conditioned to an environment
of intuition and desire simultaneously.
Often intuition is thought to be a feeling
we get that something is presumed to be the case, an assumption purely based on
feelings. When you actually condition your ego to become less desiring
therefore more intuitive, intuitiveness takes on a different meaning.
Intuitiveness is no longer just a feeling but an awareness. The less desiring
we become, the more aware we become.
Desire is more to do with an ego conditioned
to egotism. Yes, as we can condition our egos to desire, we can condition our
egos to an environment of egotism. Actually, both desire and egotism go hand in
hand, one not being able to exist without the other. To become egotistical takes
desire as to desire takes egotism. Even if we desire to help human kind, the
desire of even being seen to help creates egotism, an exaggerated importance. How many people today desire to be seen
helping human consciousness?
Intuition on the other hand has nothing to
do with desire. Try truly becoming aware without the things we don't desire to
become aware of or feel. Intuition has no preference or desire; this means
anything from hate to love, conflict to harmony, negative to positive, and so
on, the ego can intuitively become aware of. In other words the honest truth
is presented to the ego through intuition, not a desired truth, a dishonest
truth. What ego conditioned to desire wishes to become truly aware or
intuitive? It can't occur because our desires take control of the ego,
conditioning the ego to desires rather than intuition.
If I endangered my own life to help others
and was called a hero, I would tell these people where to go. My own ego would
detest being called a hero, now, how many people would do this? An ego
conditioned to desire will always react differently to an ego conditioned to
intuition. Intuition, an awareness of my own ego, instinctively tells me that I
wouldn't like be called a hero, even before becoming a hero. Of course an ego
conditioned to desire would relish in being called a hero.
When I lived in the bush/forest as a
younger person, I had a feeling when I was going to come across a snake, every
time without exception. As we did as children, we walked around the bush in our
bare feet so this intuition was highly beneficial for my well being. My
intuition didn't tell me where the snake was going to be, only that I was going
to come a cross a snake that day. If I expressed less desire, would have my
feelings become more of an awareness? An
awareness, as opposed to just a feeling, would have also told me where I was
going to come a cross a snake in the bush.
You can desire one moment and become
intuitive in the next moment, remembering that the more we desire, the less
intuitive we become. When we desire, this
is often in the absence of intuition and visa-versa. We will often only perceive through desire what we will experience, not
what we will actually experience.
The following doesn't totally endorse what
I have stated here but they are an interesting read, in my mind anyway.
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