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Recognizing Ego Every Day: Morality · We Are The Same

• 0:03
  SPEAKER_00: Hello everyone, I hope you've had a beautiful week.
• 0:06
  SPEAKER_00: In today's episode, we're going to discuss how to recognize the ego every day in order to be more mindful of the stories it tells us and the control it has over our mental peace.
• 0:16
  SPEAKER_00: This comes down to a single simple practice, and that practice is simply noticing duality.
• 0:22
  SPEAKER_00: It can be tiresome at first to be mindful every second of every day in order to see how your ego is perpetuating duality, but it becomes like muscle memory, where the more you pay attention to it, the more you'll notice it without having to try.
• 0:35
  SPEAKER_00: Duality is how the 3D world works, and thus how the ego works.
• 0:40
  SPEAKER_00: Duality is taught to us in everything from morals, right versus wrong, to energy, light versus dark, to personal happiness, good versus bad.
• 0:49
  SPEAKER_00: You can find duality in pretty much everything, and it is the ego's way of leading your life in controlling your beliefs, feelings, and thoughts.
• 0:57
  SPEAKER_00: This practice of recognizing duality is not to force yourself to stop thinking dualistically, but rather notice how every dualistic thought creates judgments, expectations, and mental strife.
• 1:09
  SPEAKER_00: Today we're going to talk about recognizing the ego in morality, to see how we cultivate dualistic thoughts and the intrinsic issues found within.
• 1:18
  SPEAKER_00: Morality moves with the times, dependent on the overarching political system of the moment.
• 1:24
  SPEAKER_00: And I say political and not religious because politics and laws are what truly dictate a lot of our morality.
• 1:31
  SPEAKER_00: For example, when the Holy Roman Emperor Charlemagne ordered 4,500 Saxons to be killed because they refused to convert to Catholicism, or when Emperor Theodosius I made pagan worship illegal and punishable by death.
• 1:47
  SPEAKER_00: These may seem like religious orders, which they are on the surface, but in reality they're political doctrines put into place by lawmakers and rulers.
• 1:56
  SPEAKER_00: These attempts at spreading Christianity did in fact work, the polytheistic beliefs becoming monotheistic ones, and the pagan morals becoming Christian ones.
• 2:06
  SPEAKER_00: The point here is that what your ruling party dictates as morals means that it's simply your ruling party and not unanimous.
• 2:16
  SPEAKER_00: Here in the West, murder is illegal and wrong unless it's ordered by the government under the guise of war or the death penalty or against animals to feed the population.
• 2:26
  SPEAKER_00: Murder is wrong in the West to the point that there are only now laws being put into place regarding doctor-assisted suicide or dying with dignity as it's being renamed, though there are still a lot of requirements one must go through in order to be approved.
• 2:40
  SPEAKER_00: When you pull a weed from your garden, it's murder.
• 2:44
  SPEAKER_00: When you take antibiotics to kill bacteria in your body, it's murder.
• 2:48
  SPEAKER_00: When you squash a bug in your house, it's murder.
• 2:52
  SPEAKER_00: It's all technically the exact same thing, just justified by the moral compass in which you have grown up in.
• 2:59
  SPEAKER_00: Morals are also on a sliding scale based on subjective, egoic viewpoints.
• 3:04
  SPEAKER_00: If we take a less severe moral concept such as honesty, we can see how we justify our actions based upon the situation.
• 3:12
  SPEAKER_00: For example, some egos believe that telling a white lie, as long as it makes someone else's ego feel better, is not dishonest.
• 3:20
  SPEAKER_00: Some egos believe that lying about their own feelings will make it so that they do not get into a fight with someone that they care about.
• 3:26
  SPEAKER_00: Some egos believe that lying about their past will make things run more smoothly in their current relationship.
• 3:32
  SPEAKER_00: Some egos believe that due to gender or sexual discrimination, they must lie in order to be treated fairly.
• 3:37
  SPEAKER_00: Some egos believe that lying by omission is not a lie at all, since nothing is being said.
• 3:42
  SPEAKER_00: No matter what you're lying about or how you're doing it, it's still dishonesty.
• 3:48
  SPEAKER_00: Whether you say, well, they lied to me about cheating on me, versus, well, I said my friend's new haircut looks great when it doesn't, is inconsequential because the moral basis is honesty.
• 4:01
  SPEAKER_00: A sliding scale regarding morals and personal egoic justification shows how the ego plays games.
• 4:08
  SPEAKER_00: Morals are based on dualistic perspectives, and I'm not here to judge you, nor should you judge anyone else.
• 4:14
  SPEAKER_00: Egos are taught what they're taught and compelled via trauma, fear, and experience.
• 4:20
  SPEAKER_00: What I'm here to encourage you to do is take stock of when your ego views something as right or wrong and get down to the base of the subject.
• 4:28
  SPEAKER_00: If you hold honesty as a top moral value, can you realistically say that you never lie?
• 4:35
  SPEAKER_00: Not once, not ever, not on anything?
• 4:38
  SPEAKER_00: There is, of course, no way to ever rid the ego of dualism, and this includes with honesty, as you cannot tell everyone everything that you're always thinking, believing, feeling, etc., just so that you're not omitting.
• 4:50
  SPEAKER_00: Instead, your ego utilizes expectations and discernment, two other dualisms in themselves, to decide when something should be important enough for the other ego to know.
• 5:02
  SPEAKER_00: And this is why I'm reiterating that this practice is not to stop your mind from creating nor participating in duality.
• 5:08
  SPEAKER_00: It's simply to help your ego understand that it is partaking in dualistic practices all day, every day.
• 5:15
  SPEAKER_00: And with a bit of mindfulness on how your ego works, you can begin to chisel away at these black and white thought patterns and continue to remember that everything is intrinsically the same.
• 5:28
  SPEAKER_00: Until next week, all of my best and highest vibrations to you.