If we completely destroyed our ego, would we become the universe?

Question

A chair doesn't know it's separate from the rest of the universe because it has no ego to give it a sense of self. So a chair is one with the universe. Can this be achieved in the human mind?

Answer 1

Back in 1968, when I was an acid-dropping Hippie, "ego-death" was considered a worthwhile goal, but mostly it amounted to giving yourself completely over to whatever LSD hallucinations were flashing through your mind. These days, if it were actually possible to destroy your ego, you'd probably end up confined to a psychiatric ward. Even as a dippy Hippie, I clearly understood the difference between subjective perceptual experience and actual objective reality. Evidently, you just don't get it...



To directly answer your question: No, despite what you may otherwise believe. And your physical body is already as much a part of the universe as any chair. I wonder, do you have brains enough to be smarter than a chair? You do? See how useful an ego can be...

Answer 2

No and you do not properly understand the Hindu and Buddhist concepts and doctrines regarding ego and ego dissolution. This is common and probably natural for people new to mysticism East or West who do not have the practical experience to understand the scriptural or philosophical materials they are reading. Ego is called ahamkara in Sanskrit and literally translates as "I-sense" or "I-activity." It is your sense of self as a personality. Your personality is a reactive and automated (robotic/programmed) construct of habits and experiences, neuroses, and conditioning. It is not considered to be your actual conscious self, philosophically speaking. It is the momentum of you *as* an activity in the world interacting with everything else that is an activity. Activity is called "karma." Through meditation, contemplation, and other spiritual disciplines, a person realizes the automatic and conditioned nature of the ego and karmic momentum and learns to stop being so attached to the idea of egoity and the things that keep you bound to it and its hapless, conditioned and neurotic karmic momentum..

Answer 3

Neither does it know it is inseparate with the universe, therefore the absence of ego does not necessitate oneness.



Sense of self is not the issue, over-obsession with self-image and status, and the like, can be. Otherwise, we would have to forget who we are just to be we already are, which is the universe alive. Instead, I say oneness is a kind of flow and balance, that results from knowing thyself, and causes us to feel ultra-at-home, and to feel as though we have company when there is no one there.

Answer 4

My mother was told by a college professor she had no ego. I've always thought her close to perfect. There is no such thing as being one with the universe.

Answer 5

Meditation

Answer 6

no we would not become the universe



no a chair is not one with the universe

it has no conscience or self awareness

Answer 7

Non-sequitur.



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Answer 8

You actually talk with chairs?



I don't, so I am unable to attain this level of understanding of chairs....

Answer 9

Niggir zoo



niggir sow





niggir filth





niggir chimp out





niggirs n*ig out









Niggir filth and niggir baboon

Answer 10

A ____ is so-and-so, because I say so, so can a _____ be God?



See what I did there?