Your embodied mind is created by your inner being to serve as
a reverse mirror reflection for the purpose of gathering wisdom through
experience by making comparisons between contrasting states of consciousness.
Whereas your inner being is by nature unlimited and characterized by love,
wisdom, and power, your embodied mind is by nature limited and characterized
by fear, ignorance, and helplessness.
Just as your embodied mind is created by your inner being to serve as a
reverse mirror reflection, so your personality is created by your embodied
mind to serve as your substitute identity so long as your embodied mind
remains in an unenlightened state of spiritual amnesia.
You may think of your inner being as an artist, your embodied mind as your
paint brush, paint, and canvas, and your personality during a particular
lifetime as your work of art.
Your personality is created by your choices and is composed of every
perception, feeling, thought, desire, action, and memory that you choose
during the course of your life.
Ego is simply the mistaken belief of your embodied mind that your personality
constitutes your true identity rather than your substitute identity.
In other words, ego is nothing more than your mind’s false belief that you are
a separate person.
Ego may therefore be defined as the resistance which your outer mind offers to
your inner being.
Thus, whereas your inner being is analogous to the accelerator of a car, your
ego is analogous to the brakes of a car, both of which are necessary for
having an incarnation in separation consciousness.
Using a different analogy, we can then say that, whereas your inner being is
like a fisherman, your embodied mind is like a marlin, and your ego is like
the resistance which the marlin offers as it is slowly, patiently, and
lovingly reeled in by the fisherman.
So long as your outer mind is holding on to the false belief that you are a
separate person, you will experience separation consciousness and will seem to
be living a double life in which your outer mind and your inner being appear
to be two opposing identities.
To understand the true relationship between your inner being and your outer
mind, simply stand in front of a mirror, hold up your right hand, observe your
reflection in the mirror holding up its left hand, and then say: “Thank you
very much for your reverse reflection of that which I am; I love you in the
realization that you are my creation and are simply doing your job.”
The key thing to understand is that your ego is merely the illusion of being a
separate person and that what appears to be the death of the ego is actually
the liberation of your mind from the illusion of separation consciousness.
Enlightenment occurs when your outer mind is finally ready to surrender to and
align with your inner being by first releasing the false belief that you are a
separate person and then shifting out of separation consciousness into unity
consciousness.
The key to shifting out of separation consciousness into unity consciousness
consists in opening your heart chakra through the practice of unconditional
forgiving love, which uses unconditional forgiveness to liberate your mind
from all of the judgmental emotions with which it has unwittingly imprisoned
itself.
