Full Guide: How To Truly Master The Ego

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  • @jonsantiago7549
    @jonsantiago7549 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    Ego is the algorithm to keep the body alive... Our desire to be separate from God gave birth to the ego. We keep feeding the ego by in a constant battle with anything...

  • @marjoriehall9984
    @marjoriehall9984 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

    The ego is super tricky. Even just trying to be aware of it, we can pat ourselves on the back when we think we've done a good job of being aware and it has won again! Having said that, I agree that meditation is a wonderful tool to bring us into balance and expose the thoughts that we take as us, but really are not. Thank you, Ben.

    • @jonsantiago7549
      @jonsantiago7549 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Thinking is the ego, feeling is from Spirit... When we think, we are using the ego, that is when programming kicks in...

    • @bensmithreal
      @bensmithreal  2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      You are so right, it’s a slippery character.

    • @freethinker79
      @freethinker79 หลายเดือนก่อน

      The isolated, shadow-driven ego is our Inner Trickster.

  • @funniful
    @funniful หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    I’m continually checking myself for ego…it’s almost a compulsion. I may be about to say something to someone, but internally decide that I’m only saying it so the other person thinks I’m (smart, talented, high-class, rich, pious, lucky, or whatever it may be). So I don’t speak.
    It leaks into every part of my life…what I say, do, how I dress, how I decorate my home, what I buy…. I feel I’m always struggling for control of ego, and pulling myself back sharply into humility. It takes up a lot of my internal dialog. I’m not sure if this is normal.

  • @malinamalina7769
    @malinamalina7769 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Ego is everything we’ve labelled throughout experiences… everything we made as our wall-protection for us… that makes problems in our life and our reactions come from that place…

  • @p14men
    @p14men 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Thank you Ben for another selfreflection 😀
    Ego is rigid and damaging you
    It limits you to very few well known options in your life, and basically stuck in the matrix
    If you just switch it off, you'll be engulfed by stupidity in the daily life
    So balance means:
    Live with your ego,
    But never trust it
    No need to demonstrate your ego faithfully outside
    But having the faith in your social presence
    Just be there in the real world casting the shadow of ego, but never trust it, never be one with it
    Know that it is your dress to show your colours amongst strangers, for them to recognize and accept you.
    But that's all about it
    The ego is not a sin
    The ego is our way to be outside there among others
    And to find a realization in our life path
    Motivation for master the ego:
    Once achieving full awareness of it
    It will not be of any burden
    It will be just primitive shadow around you
    To maintain the balance socially:
    Never fall in the temptation of mirror the others comparing your superiority
    Consuming the full glory as such will instantly bridge all your energy into reality of the present glory.
    Consuming all potency into social orgasm. leaving you depleted and alone in the emptiness.
    Moreover, later on it will be difficult for you to find again the path of subtle light that previously lit the whole for you.
    Nevertheless you should not be guilty
    Falling into your temptation is your path of orientation in the physical world towards your realization.
    How to know when you have mastered you ego?
    In such transformation you won't need even the shadow of your ego anymore
    Persistent dwelling into higher awareness would bring a strange brilliance in you eyes, making everyone around you accepting you
    It will become your charisma, with no words needed
    Just your presence amongst the others will instantly attract everyone around you
    Everyone will tend to love you
    Somehow unexplainably for them
    They will feel in their gut that they want you in their circle
    Because when being around you they cherish light in their lost and hopeless physical life
    Ego is like the sex
    When you blindly suppress and alienate it
    It will become the infinite opposed you
    Waiting to merge once again as male and female into one
    The way celibacy is achieved
    Is the same way your ego disappears
    You should not suppress, but experience in absolute
    only then you'll mature enough to be aware of their presence as perfectly existing on their own
    Because you don't consume with ego,
    But experience these all with bliss being in coexistence
    Thank you Ben, 😀
    Just seeing the thumbnail with your smile there is enough inspiration for self reflection

  • @p14men
    @p14men 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    09:15 You nailed it :) "Because if you can control the senses you're inadvertently controlling the ego"
    That is the best cheating code you could say as mantra and it will instantly put you in the track to conserve your energy :) thank you for bringing this glimpse back :)

  • @simeondawkins6358
    @simeondawkins6358 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    yes the ego protects itself, its brutal hard to kill lol yet once dead it truly becomes usefull

  • @jamest3336
    @jamest3336 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Being aware all day is exhausting 😂

  • @srividyamalkapuram7572
    @srividyamalkapuram7572 หลายเดือนก่อน

    another important aspect of the ego and its control method is to trap us in the cycle of like and dislike - the easiest way to keep us attached

  • @Pickledgravy
    @Pickledgravy 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    🤯 the way you connected being consciously conscious as controlling the ego is so helpful.

  • @rainsepol745
    @rainsepol745 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    ❤🙏🏽 I am grateful for the answer I was looking for...

  • @MichaelSplatkins
    @MichaelSplatkins 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    It's interesting how the taxonomy of spiritual awakening varies from person to person. In this instance 'I' and 'ego'.
    The I Am/the being/the awareness and the egoic construct that we believe ourselves to be are separate. So referring to one's investment in ego as 'I' is a bit sticky as separating the two is ultimately the goal.

  • @karabean
    @karabean 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Your videos always seem to pop up right when it's most relevant for me. Thank you! ❤🙏

  • @lynnvener6631
    @lynnvener6631 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Sending much 💜 & gratitude for all that you've taught humanity, Ben. The way you explain spirituality is brilliant.. Its very strange that I've known these things (and have lived without a real ego) but never actually learned it anywhere in this lifetime..hmmm. This is what leads me to believe that past lives are actually REAL. Thank u, thank u, thank u😽.Have a blessed day😇

    • @seffard
      @seffard 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      No doubt about past lives being real. Some people are born remembering them with detail, even in between lives as spirit as well. There are videos about children talking about it. Most people dont remember because Earth's reality is too dense and cant easily make a strong connection to the soul through the veil of forgetfulness, but that's been changing with Earth's ascencion.

  • @divinelypaved
    @divinelypaved 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    3:23 I wrote bout this in a book I'm writing.

  • @galwright7853
    @galwright7853 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Nice Ben! The ego is definitely something I need to understand better.

  • @monicadls613_
    @monicadls613_ 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I describe myself as an energetic expression of the One... Creative energy everlasting 🙏💕💕

  • @tj-oy9ds
    @tj-oy9ds 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Thank you!🙏🏾

  • @tracy2307
    @tracy2307 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Love this. Thank you Ben. 🙏💜

  • @Neeshad22
    @Neeshad22 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Thank you so much.

  • @charlenebrown816
    @charlenebrown816 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I love that your explaining this! My ego has been trying to take over as I try to calm it down! ❤. It's good to know that there are good aspects that come from my ego also.

  • @kimberlysilveira7686
    @kimberlysilveira7686 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Great definition...love the correlation between the ego and the middle way. Fresh way if looking at it for me. Thnx

  • @dianeharland8826
    @dianeharland8826 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Loved this video Ben it answered a lot of questions about a certain thought I struggle with. I now have a name to give it when it pops up in my head and a reasoning I can use to calm it. Many thanks Ben

  • @osminguzman3029
    @osminguzman3029 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I’m new to meditation and I love the way you explain things. Great job and thanks for that.

  • @ashaghatie2972
    @ashaghatie2972 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Great and simple explanation.....thank you

  • @shawngoral3987
    @shawngoral3987 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Thanks Ben. This is the best simple explanation of ego I have seen yet.

  • @beckycarter6820
    @beckycarter6820 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Really enjoying your channel - great content Thankyou for providing it! The middle way is defiantly a beautiful balancing act

  • @jessp24
    @jessp24 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    10k subscribers!! Congratulations Ben! Well deserved. Grateful for you. 😊🙏🏼

  • @fredmanfv
    @fredmanfv 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    WOW...Thank you Ben. This gave me a very good insight into my friend the ego...🤔

  • @tarathreesix9327
    @tarathreesix9327 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Great video! I am having some trouble equating the ego with the body itself, however...this is because the body seeks homeostasis at all times and does its very best to keep a balance despite all that we do to it. So perceiving the body as the ego doesn't compute for me.

    • @p14men
      @p14men 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Hey there :)
      Below my understanding
      The body is holly
      The ego is glory
      - The body is your temple for you to exist and experience the most out of the life
      - The ego is the socially survival mechanism amongst the others
      The issue comes when stop recognizing their distinct nature and merge these into one amalgam
      Here is the way to distillate and reverse engineer the mess:
      If you somehow achieve to know you chakras, you'll master the body, hence will get the best homeostasis.
      If you somehow achieve to be in higher awareness, you'll truly start to see and master the ego, as useless and obsolete heavy armor.
      Searching for "homeostasis" is a great thing you are doing, showing your maturity to know the body importance
      Because your body is like a "dynamo" for energy
      With that energy you could experience the life in its many joys
      The more the energy, the more life you could afford to live.
      Spend it wisely :)
      On a further note
      Around your chakras
      Your glands start to secrete
      The more they secrete, the more fertile they become
      If you restrain to ripe the fruit
      The energy will raise to the next chakra
      if you restrain again its temptation you will keep ascend on and on
      The issue to reach the top is because of the urge to "experience" the daily life
      The daily chance to blossom amongst the others
      And gain their attention, love and shared joy
      That's why you need the awareness to "see" your path during your zombie dull absenteeism
      Remember you have seen your path before because of your maturity, ever after your depleted hopeless day
      This should always remind you that there is a present waiting for you at the promised lands
      After all, we are all born to find the promised land, enjoying the life as well though :)
      You should just know yourself
      Don't thank me trying to support you, rather Ben for inspiring the light that makes the smile out of my face :)

  • @danamathers8255
    @danamathers8255 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Very interesting, and so well explained. Thank you. 🙏🏻

  • @Lucida1818
    @Lucida1818 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The ego is so tricky to deal with 🤷🏻‍♀️

  • @Dales_cigarette
    @Dales_cigarette 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Just started meditation a couple of months ago. Great video! 🙏What are your thoughts on hemi-sync? Maybe a topic for a video.

  • @myztafretz1268
    @myztafretz1268 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    1st 🙏🏾

  • @seffard
    @seffard 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Mastering the middle path is also part of Christ consciousness that leads to unlimited potential in the soul evolution, what Jesus figuratively said as the only way to Heaven, the tree of life. Both extreme sides are represented by the Devil's temptations from the ego that stray us away: the materialistic dark Ahriman and the spiritualist of false light Lucifer.

  • @81gamer81
    @81gamer81 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    this is true.
    I stopped eating pork. ego says become vegan. Sounds good, except its just a trap. I just happen to not buy meat, but if offered a meal at friend or something, I will only refuse pork. people tend to make religion over food real fast, but thats another story. I might have pork at christmas, just to prove its not dogmatic

  • @GlowCupid
    @GlowCupid หลายเดือนก่อน

    These videos are always informative. I have been on my spiritual journey the last two years and while I understand the ego sometimes it's tricky for example...I have a YT channel and I have been wanting to take my content to the next level by purchasing a camera but in order to do that I would have use savings money and I'm conflicted on rather it's the right thing to do. I feel like I have great relationship money but then sometimes I overthink it even though it can be beneficial. Any thoughts?

  • @simeondawkins6358
    @simeondawkins6358 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The ego is a thought reference for the body based of the true self as you call it the fact that reality is turned in on itself creating the light of observation the i me thoughts etc is based of that and taken as the real thing because all thoughts are fantasy imagination a form of symbolic concept based ai that humans filter reality though

  • @MaxDooDat2
    @MaxDooDat2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Thanks. But I was hoping you would also give us a method for temporarily situations; like short-circuiting the ego from sabotaging your spiritual practices. Most specifically, eliminating/stopping the mind chatter it purposely produces to interrupt a mediation session. For instance, would a good tactic be to address it directly and command it to stop, or is there some other sublime method that can be used to get it to be better behaved? Or is all we can do in such a situation is to be aware of what is doing and just ignore it as much as possible?

  • @MaxwellBuba
    @MaxwellBuba หลายเดือนก่อน

    Why love the Ego the extremes?

  • @nikajere6207
    @nikajere6207 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Its so paradox ...the ego is the "I", it should protect us und yet its working agains uns. Any thoughts on WHY and what the ego actually is? I feel like the ego developed its own ego along the way...?😂 love the video❤

  • @simeondawkins6358
    @simeondawkins6358 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    a babies first ideas concepts is separation than from that ideas of the me and the other so on so the ego is the central pillar of the mind the central point of the illusion, you take that out the mind kind of wakes up to itself the dreamer awakens

  • @amywestover1490
    @amywestover1490 หลายเดือนก่อน

    How can I stop the greatest hits going on almost daily in my mind ? I hear music in my head all the time. And know this is distracting me from the truth.

  • @robtomx
    @robtomx 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    If we realize that everything is God expressing Itself thru different aspects of existence and then realize that means I am God is that the ego as well? I recognize that there are different levels of perspective like big G and little G, how do you differentiate between the ego and divine in that circumstance?

  • @cesarperez8553
    @cesarperez8553 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Hey ben have you heard of the youtuber “MASTER OF EARTH” ? He hasnt posted in a while but his teachings are profound. I would love to hear your thoughts about his teachings!

  • @HubertvanderPol
    @HubertvanderPol หลายเดือนก่อน

    That thing on your wall, does it symbolize a god-shaped hole or in other words the inner lotus?

  • @graphycus
    @graphycus 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    How do you know that you are in the middle way? Is there a golden number between zero and too much? If, let's say, I eat 1 chocolate bar a day, isn't that already too much? Or is it just the ego saying that it's too much?

    • @bensmithreal
      @bensmithreal  2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Like I touched on in the video - it’s through experience that you know. You base it off of how the body responds, how the body feels etc. gradually you can refine things down and find YOUR version of a healthy balance. The key is not to let our conditioning decide, but to discern for ourselves🙏

  • @holism
    @holism 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The ego is so tricky in-fact, that it will convince you that you are in direct contact with a divine avatar .. ;)

  • @napjacob
    @napjacob 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Didn't watch yet. But i wonder you titled it "full guide" Could it be your ego is playing you? Full guide means that it can be seen as complete, and such seems arrogant. Am i conflating arrogant with ego? I don't know anyways just some feedback from what i picked up on. Could be nothing.

    • @karabean
      @karabean 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      LOL that is your ego convincing you that you shouldn't watch the video. 😂

    • @user-tw7bp3nr4d
      @user-tw7bp3nr4d 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I’d watch a bit of it and feel into his energy and then take it from there. You’ll be able to see if those video is for you or not.

    • @napjacob
      @napjacob 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@user-tw7bp3nr4d I am sure they are. I have watched a few of his videos already.