Ego as a Shapeshifter (Excerpt)

Adyashanti explores the dynamics of the ego and how it subtly, and almost imperceptibly, shifts from one form to another to avoid being dismantled. Video Excerpted from March 30, 2019 Oakland Meeting, “Liberating the Guises of Ego”: bit.ly/2IfXFzK
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Quotes from this Video: “There is no self that is holding on, there’s just holding on. There is no self that lets go, there is just letting go.” adyashanti.org
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[@bethhayes1]

Checkmate - when the ego has run out of moves. Thank you!

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I listened to the entire talk this excerpt is from today, thank for making it available on The Stream. This has to be one of his best, along with "The Dream of Me" Very grateful for these teachings 🙏Namaste 🕉

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Just a thought... In a single breath, I found myself in the darkness with only my thoughts and the breath who brought me there. 🕯️

[@youarewhatyourelookingfor4496]

Failure is incredibly valuable. It shows me many things. I don’t like, agree with or approve of it but it can be useful.

[@bywaternyc7856]

Bless you, dear Adya.

[@daliacezar]

Good no more strategies because ego is using it to shapeshifting “becoming “ more subtle indictable now calling it the awakened version. I am not implying that anyone is not aware but is quite tricky because any identification is no other than the ego. I love this talk ,thank you Ady because it is the perfect way of describing it as infinity shapeshifter.

[@ThePokerCats]

Agreed - and in my experience it has a cunning and insatiable ability to make every practice/technique etc it’s own. I love Adya never shares anything the Ego can grab onto and attempt to own.

[@markcounseling]

This is so awesome! Check! Check! Check! Mate!!!!

[@yerpderp6800]

This excerpt can be condensed to "a knife cannot cut itself, an eye cannot see itself". Likewise, "I" cannot describe itself because it cannot witness itself as an object, it is the subject. It is only by ceasing the process that the subject knows itself by virtue of being; always there in plain sight.

[@apriltate3955]

My path feels like a path of exile and overcoming betrayal.

[@InquirywithHelena]

Puts me in mind of that classic book - Cutting Through Spiritual Materialism by Trungpa - where he talks about the Royal Road of Disappointment. Thinking I need to reread it....

[@fortissimoX]

Thank you!

[@MarkKap]

There is no way of dodging it. We get away only with what we give away.

[@Misslotusification]

Liberation is not of the self, but from the self.

[@Etna11]

Thank you 🌠

[@rul4522]

I love this! My path is likewise.

[@peacelovejoy8786]

The ego sees everyone as an enemy. It is this judgment that maintains the sense of individuality the ego needs to keep its special specialness. It fears anything or anyone that would seem to question its carefully constructed separate image. The ego is fearful. But the ego is not our identity. Our true identity is the self created by Love and held eternally one with Love. The ego - mind, suspicious at best and vicious at worst. The ego mind - the greatest "con - artist" of all! Nothing real can be threatened. Nothing unreal exists. Herein lies the Peace of God 🙏 Love and Light 💛

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manasam tu kim ("but what is the mind?") ....marga arjavat ("the straightforward, direct path")

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Wow!

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Thank you

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Quicksilver..? Sure looks like it!

[@fongponto]

There is the possibility to play pat in stead of checkmate...

[@riccardoc1711]

The pathless path ;)

[@MariaM-wi7ix]

How is the ego shapeshifting?

[@sahamal_savu]

If you pay close attention you'll notice that once the ego is identified in one form, it will promptly manifest in another form to avoid being "found out" or backed into a corner, like being checkmated as Adyashanti put it in this talk. In my personal experience I've noticed it will manifest in a more subtle way, presenting itself through a more deeply entrenched pattern that hasn't been as thoroughly investigated. The more you practice self inquiry the more you'll begin to see that the ego is merely a psychological process, albeit a persistent one that will present in many different forms to attempt to keep you entranced, so to speak.

[@deionutz]

hey mate that mating movement wants to check mate or to not be check mated?

[@ThePokerCats]

It thinks it can do the check mating but deep down it KNOWS it can’t and that it’s the one who can be check mated. And as Adya said, it’s the last thing it wants to admit because it’s game over once it does. Its helpful to remember that this whole thing is very paradoxical. On the one hand, the Ego is an illusion - it’s not real. But, on the other hand, it has a relative truth to it because it’s a creation of the mind and nothing is separate. Yet, like he says, while it feels solid/real because of the emotional energy wrapped up in it, we can never find it because ultimately, it doesn’t exist. Hence, the paradox.

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you too huh?

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[@jamesdean747]

Ego is a psyop

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[@luismoref]

What am I?

[@youarewhatyourelookingfor4496]

When am I? Where am I too. What is “I?”

[@vvv2k12]

Is there an "I" at all?

[@danmoord375]

checkmate

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[@abdielguzman3775]

Isn't God a shapeshifter too?

[@veritas2222]

As I understand it, God is already every shape there is, has been, or can be … so what shape is God not?