A properly assigned ego is a very small thing.
It shows up occasionally to offer feedback ("this offends me") or guidance ("that would hurt"), but does not pretend at agency.
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I understood it to be a sort of "ego is enemy" framework, common when rubbing up against outsize egos (one's own or that of others).
My idea is that this is giving ego a lot more power and importance than it merits, and is also an unfair dismissal of a useful tool.
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Right. In my perspective that would be an example of a maladaptive egoic activity, rather than ego per se.
Still, I agree fully within the scope of your framing.
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Siloing and dissociation.
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Like I said, I think ego is just a navigation tool. A compass, a barometer, whatever else it needs to be.
Outside of this scope, of aiding in navigation for the body and mind, it is behaving in error.
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Also worth mentioning that ego is only the enemy from the perspective of a deeply confused ego. It's ego cognition.
The ego is so, so tiny. So insignificant
Fighting ego *is* ego behavior.
You don't need to fight something that doesn't make the decisions.
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