(March 29, 2012 at 4:37 pm)Bgood Wrote: Like you said, ego is a CONCEPT of self. God is also a concept. Therefore the ego is not the source, it is a mental construct created through experience and social conditioning. The pure mind is conscious awareness that gets obstructed by egotistic "needs". Ego is not mind, only a troubling phantom of it. This is a difficult teaching of the dharma, yet very important.
Your ego is your mind. No mental construct is possible without the primary concept of ego. The pure consciousness - without ego - is nothing - no thoughts, feelings, judgments, emotions - nothing. What you ask here is that man should surrender himself - his ego, his mind, his everything - and become an automaton, simply capable of awareness and reaction - not thoughts or judgment.
