Chapter 7 - Moving Beyond
Before sitting down to dinner the old sage sat cross legged on the ground. He took a few deep breaths, holding each one for a moment and then releasing his breath and with it energies from the day that he did not want to hold onto.
"What are you doing," asked the young man?
The old sage smiled and opened his eyes, turning all his attention to his young apprentice. "I am moving beyond the ego. At the end of each day I play the day back in my minds eye and when I come to an event when the flow of my energy is stopped by my ego I take a deep breath, reflect on it for a moment and then release it into the ether."
The young man returned the Sage's smile, but he was still confused; a state he was experiencing a lot since he began his journey with the old man. "What do you mean by the ego and how does it stop your energy flow?"
"There are those that say that the Ego is the mediator between the conscious and Subconscious minds. There are others who say it is our identity. While some say it is what gives us our sense of self worth or self importance. In a way it is all those things, but for me it's greatest weakness is that it stops the flow of information from our higher selves and disconnects us with everything else in this beautiful universe. Think back to the other day when you woke and found me gone. It was your ego that went into a panic. It was only when you calmed yourself down and reconnected with spirit that you became part of all things and at that moment you knew where I was."
"Sage, why do we have an ego if it limits us?"
"The ego gives us a sense of ourselves. It is important in our first few incarnations when we are here to learn lessons of a more earthly nature. It is only after our sixth lifetime when we begin on our spiritual path that we begin to move beyond the ego. The ego is the source of most of our weaknesses. Most of our weaknesses come from the various manifestations of the ego's fear of death. Fear is the ego's weapon that stops us from moving forward in our lives. The ego is lazy. It does not want to try knew things. It would rather stay in an negative state that it has become comfortable with than take a chance on a better life. Change is the death of the ego. Once you start to realize that the ego is holding you back then little by little you can move beyond it to a life where you are in the flow. Where it does not matter what is around the next corner. Whereas the ego will stop you from living, being in the flow will allow you opportunities that you never thought possible."
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