I like to share this wonderfull teaching about the Ego.
Also I like to thank the author that give permission to me to put it on my site.
The author is Ivan Campuzano and his website you find here: http://ivancampuzano.com/
He has a very nice spiritual website and I like his teachings.
Check out his website you will not regret it!

Are You Attached To Your Ego?

Whenever we give our power to anything outside of ourselves, we become susceptible to feelings of
anguish, anxiety, depression, and stress. Usually the cause can be found when your ego has become
attached and strongly identified with the outside world. Your ego is essentially your self image,
it’s the mask you display to society.
Your ego only survives by constantly seeking approval from that which it wants to identity with.
Therefore all the unhappiness you experience comes from the constant battle of your ego
seeking approval in the outside world.

You can feel your ego when you become attached and live your world by identifying your identity
through the thoughts of:

Praise and Blame: Whenever you receive praise if you are not aware you will become puffed up in your own ego.
Whenever the outside world does not go according to the way you would like it, you learn to put your blame on it.

Gain and Loss: Your ego is only concerned with what’s in it for me. When you gain something,
you are never happy because than you are only worried about loosing it.

Pleasure and Pain: The ego wants to only experience pleasure, but the only pleasure it can receive is momentary
in nature, because it needs external things to satisfy its desires.
Superficial pleasures are always accompanied by the same amount of pain.
At the time we receive extreme pleasure in drinking too much wine with friends, only to regret it the next day.

Fame and Shame: Since your ego only survives by seeking approval from the outside world it concerns it
self with becoming happy through fame. You become famous than you worry about not doing anything
that will bring you shame. You are never truly at ease with yourself because you worry about how
others perceive you and whether it will bring you fame or shame.

When you believe that your identity is your ego, you will only live your world in reactive mode.
You will live your life only in direct relation to how you are affected by gain and loss, pleasure and pain,
fame and shame. Living like this you will never be living in reality; you are only experiencing this world
from the self conscious perspective. By living your life from only a self conscious perspective,
you only experience this world from your own thoughts, your living in your own little world
disconnected from the greater reality. If you are not careful you will be lost, if you try and search
for happiness, you will never find it because it’s not real.
Happiness is not something you find outside of yourself.
Happiness is something that is already inside you, you have to decide to be happy.
You have to realize that happiness will never be found in egoist desires.

Since your ego comes from you memory and can only think of the past and imagine the future,
you need to learn to be more present to transcend it.
The real you can be felt when you are truly present in whatever you are doing. If you are able to
go a park sit on a bench, learn to watch everything that’s going on around you, without thinking
of the past or imagining the future, you will catch glimpses of your true identity.
You must learn to watch whatever is going on inside you with out becoming attached to your thoughts.

The more you do this the more you will develop a calm mind that does not automatically react to the immense
number of thoughts we have. Next time you are driving and someone cuts you off, learn to just watch the
thoughts that arise, if you do not become attached and give power to them, they will fade away and you will
not react by screaming at the driver. It’s impossible to separate our selves from our ego, this is by nature
how we are designed, learn to understand it, so you can learn from it on your journey to self realization.

This teaching is from Ivan Campuzano and his website you find here: http://ivancampuzano.com/
The original teaching on his website you find here are-you-attached-to-your-ego

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