Is the ego the source of thoughts ?, by Eckart Tolle

  • 2011

Person of the public: Is it the ego where thoughts originate? Or are thoughts born elsewhere beyond the ego?

ET: Thank you

There is no separation between ego and thoughts. The identification with the thoughts is the ego, but the thoughts that cross your mind of course are linked to the collective mentality, such as the culture in which you live, humanity, everything.

So your thoughts as such are not yours, but rather most of them capt of the collective, and you identify yourself with a thought, and that identification With a thought it becomes the Ego, which simply means that you believe every thought that arises from your mind, giving rise to the idea that you are those thoughts, what your mind is. saying that you are

You think ... from your point of view that you are that ... some people speak to themselves: "Oh you are so, but so good!" "Why doesn't the world recognize you?"

Or your mind says: "You are not good" that it is the same, or "you are useless, you fail at all, don't you?"

Then you believe it and suddenly you have a very poor opinion of yourself

Why do you have a poor opinion of yourself? Because you believed in your thoughts

And why do you think those things about yourself? You probably "got" those ideas in childhood. Maybe your mom was very stressed and one day she told you "you are not good" and you stayed with that idea and things that you heard as a child were recorded in your mind

They are forms of energy as "entities" trapped in your mind and do not go away, there they are, and the more you believe in them, the more they grow and take root in your mind.

So, there are people who live with these very hostile "entities", and when I say "entities" it is nothing creepy, but ... every thought is a form of ENERGY ... and as such, we can call it "entities" and there are many people in this world that has “stuck” these “hostile negative” entities that live in their minds and that continually attack and criticize and bring it to their heads and come to believe that this is what they are…

And they continually attack themselves ... and if they are not attacking themselves, they attack those around them:

"I'm going to tell you who you are" Of course, what they are really saying is: "I'm going to tell you who I am" because they are projected ...

They know the saying: "We don't see things as they are, but rather we see them according to how we are"

Which means, that we see reality through the screen of our thoughts and judgments that is conditioned by the past ... and is a horrible way of living in the present, as "blinds us, " I say blinds us, is like see reality through many veils

“Oh, it's very dark here… is that a human? or, what is it?

So ... identify yourself with those thoughts, believe in those thoughts without having a "space" outside of where those thoughts move ...

And here I say something important: "the lack of space within ourselves THAT is the state of SPIRITUAL INCOSCIENCE" completely unconscious, and you are buried under a very heavy EGO ... you become that EGO

An EGO that feeds on the thoughts, thoughts with which you have identified ... And the first moment of freedom arises when you realize that certain ideas you have of yourself ... may have been with you for years and at the end of the day, they are only thoughts ... "you are not that" You are the CONSCIENCE.

- In my case I realized that I had these ideas ... that started in childhood

- One of many negative thoughts I had: "Bad things always happen to me" "I always do badly"

- hehe ... and I saw the people around me and thought that they were doing well ... But I was doing badly, of course the perception becomes more selective

- When you have these kinds of thoughts you notice those things many more, because in everyone's daily life things happen ... like you miss the bus, you get a traffic jam or lose money

- But it is normal, however if you always think that you are doing badly, you start to look very hard at those things ... and when they happen, they confirm your belief that you are correct!

And this is a selective perception of reality through the screen of thoughts

So reality fits what you think, and not only that! Negative thoughts ATTRACT negative situations, negative things

Or if you think people are "bad", it is a deep-rooted thought and you don't realize that it's only in your mind ... it's just a BELIEF

And as soon as you see what you want to see in another, bad things, lack of ethics, some bad attitude

"Ah, you see, I told you"

Not only that, but you find people who manifest that behavior ... Because you attracted it.

It's amazing ... how people create the world ... through this (their thoughts)

So, freedom begins when you turn away from your thoughts

First finding that little space, THE PRESENCE ALREADY FROM THERE, YOU REALIZE THAT THERE ARE CERTAIN REPETITIVE THOUGHTS and that it is only a thought (of your mind):

Bad things always happen to me, "Oh there it is ... I had thought that before"

So ... freeing yourself from the ego is freeing yourself from thoughts, I mean identifying yourself with a thought ... that's the END OF THE EGO

Occasionally you will have to "reset" your mind, but at least you're already waking up ...

ET: What about your thoughts? ... have you had them?

Audience person: - Probably that… I have to make everything perfect…. Plan to do it right

ET: and if it doesn't work out?

Public person: I run away ... or I don't ..., what I do is predict ... anticipate not to fail

ET: Ahh yes ... yes ...

ET: Some people fear failure in what they do, because ... because they have an image of themselves ... that is a product of what they think of themselves, and I would suffer if I fail something, my image would be hurt, and therefore better I do not take risks

Again, that has to do with creating your identity based on your thoughts. Even thinking that I have "failed" is a lie. To think that I am a failure is even a major LIE

You have not failed… you can simply say that “I have learned something” “this is not for me” for example

... So why believe in the lies your mind tells?

As you know, there are people who live with a very hostile mind, and these people need a great motivation, their only hope is to get rid of their minds. But first they have to realize that their problems are "self-generated" in the mind and not caused by the world around

Thank you

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