Yeah,
You see how when someone insults you we take it personally When something good happens you take it personally We're always saying this is about me Right.
It either proves my worth and value or it diminishes my worth and value Which is always saying that my worth and value is determined by what's going on in the world And so it's up and down up and down up Yeah,
Like when you say you can see it.
It's just because there's a sensitivity there that's willing to see it Right like saying,
Okay,
What's going on?
I'm gonna watch this now and then you could see it come back in and try and Use the experience to validate its own existence It's super sweet,
It's not a problem at all.
It's like that is just the function of ego But the more you don't see that that's what's happening Then the more it takes over it'll always be there and it will always be the source of every emotional disturbance and Even if it dramatically calms down It'll still be there You need it to function in a world of human beings or having the human experience.
You need it to function But it's kind of like we're just Putting it in its proper place,
Which is the surrendered aspect.
You know what?
This is like this is why it makes sense that People live a life and devotion to God But as a God that's outside it gives place for that energy to go Do you see that like I'm gonna surrender to this thing called God because I see that I'm so wretched Right if you're a Catholic That's the story.
You're so wretched But essentially that's what it's saying is that who you think you are sees itself as so separate from God that it gets all rambunctious and has to control everything and So the invitation is to surrender your life to God and give all your problems to God But it's just another way of illustrating the mechanism here that we're talking about and it's the same mechanism in all religions Which in another way is like saying a humble yourself before God or humble yourself before the truth of what's happening or Humble yourself to the truth that you don't really know Because again in the rambunctiousness of the ego it's proclaiming that it knows I know this is about me I Know this means something about me Exactly That's why spirituality is actually an epic disaster for the ego This is when people start to run away from spirituality when they find out it's kind of about this which is like just a deep humility It's like oh I thought this was gonna make me special It's like no it's gonna take all of that away from you,
But it's gonna show you that everything is sacred Everything is beautiful Everything is allowed So now you can just love everything
