171. Two Masters (Self or self)
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ONE OR THE “OTHER”
Egolessness Is A Transcendental Spiritual State.
Egolessness Is The (One and Only) Self-Existing, Self-Radiant, Acausal, Nonconditional,
Indivisible, Non-“different”, timeless, and spaceless Transcendental
Spiritual Self-State of Reality Itself.
Ego-“I” (or egoity itself) is a merely apparent (and, thus, intrinsically illusory
and non-necessary, or non-Real) psycho-physical state—conditional, limited,
“self”-contracting, “self”-bound, separative, always seeking, never-satisfied,
and mortal.
Ego-“I” (both as itself and as all it “knows”) is the individual and universal
not-“self”—or the psycho-physical illusion of separateness, relatedness, otherness,
“difference”, and space-time-“locatedness” (or “point of view”).
Egolessness Is Always Already (or Intrinsically) As Is (or As The “Perfect
Knowledge” That Is The Self-State of Reality Itself).
Ego-“I” (and all it “knows”) is always already (or intrinsically) “other” (or
not-As-Is, or not The Intrinsically egoless Self-State of Reality Itself).
These “two”—The Intrinsically egoless, Self-Existing, and Self-Radiant Self-
State of Reality Itself “and” the illusion (and the “knowledge”-illusions) of separate
psycho-physical “self”-existence, or ego-“I”, or ego-“self”—are “mutually
exclusive”, or intrinsically incompatible with one another.
Choose one, and the other is (thereupon) non-existent.
Choose one.
ALWAYS BE- WHAT IS NOT-“self”( the sensation as a seperate being)
- The ego-“I”, or psycho-physically presumed separate and actively separative
“self”-identity, is intrinsically “different” from What and all that is egoically identified
(and actively differentiated and “objectified”) as not-“self”.
Characteristically, the ego-“I” strategically and “self”-defensively or “self”-
protectively clings to the bodily persona and the personal and collectively
“tribalized” mind of the conditionally-patterned “self”-identity—and, on that
basis, the ego-“I” actively, constantly, and as a psycho-physical totality differentiates itself from What and all that the egoic “self”-identity intrinsically and
actively presumes to be not-“self”.
As a result of all of this ego-based strategizing (in both the personal and the
collective domains of life), human beings are caught in a constant “self”-made
struggle—always characterized by a fundamental disability, which is the fundamental
inability to actively identify with What and all that the egoic “self”-identity
identifies (and actively differentiates and “objectifies”) as not-“self”.
- The What and the all that is egoically identified (and actively differentiated
and “objectified”) as not-“self” always consists of two fundamental modes of
not-“self”.
The first mode of egoically identified (and actively differentiated and “objectified”)
not-“self” Is What Intrinsically Transcends the ego-“I” (or the psychophysically
“self”-presumed separate “self”-identity).
The second mode of egoically identified (and actively differentiated and “objectified”)
not-“self” is all that is egoically identified (and actively differentiated
and “objectified”) as “other” than the ego-“I” (or the psycho-physically-active
separative “self”-identity).
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