Beyond Ego

' I want my independence! I must defend my rights! If my mother says wear yellow, I don't care what she says I am going to wear blue!" Who else can possibly be saying that except the ego? Because it's saying very clearly ' in contradistinction to that person and those persons.'

How else do we make up an ego? That's what it's made up out of. I can't say I am god unless I hasten to add, as is everybody else... I don't care how many more hours I sit in the Zen center, I am not the Ego I am the Self, I am not the ego I am the Self। The old duality, we are down here and god's in the sky, I say that's out of date. We don't call it 'God' anymore we call it 'The Self'.

(ένα απόσπασμα από συνομιλία με τον Michael Hughes)