#1565, Monday, December 21: Ego extinguishing Ego?

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Post 1565, Day 355 of 2015
- 1,816 days since I started this blog -

Daily Comment

Here's the thing about knowing that space and time are an illusion, generated by our imagination to organize our existence with other consciousnesses: It doesn't help.

When you exist in a world in which you act according to your perceptions, with other people, embracing humanity means you buy in to the common human illusion of cause-and-effect, which is to say, linear time. If you adopt a super-human perspective, one which admits understands that all is basically unity, you disconnect from that illusion.

And from the possibility of communicating with other people. Because, if it's all Unity, communication is not only inefficient and error-prone, it is unnecessary.

You end up with the certain knowledge that nothing is important. Or meaningful.

All communication requires thought, and the very act of thinking creates the duality.

Frequently, for short lengths of time, I give thinking a rest. When I meditate. When I get immersed in playing music.

There is no communication involved - or at least, no dialog (meaning two-way (dualistic) communication) - at these times. If you believe in 'vibes'/vibrations, I am transmitting, not receiving, during these out-of-space-and-time moments. As soon as I start thinking about what I'm doing (what I've done, at that point), I'm back in the dualistic world, with all its attendant nonsense.

The need to communicate (I believe it is a need) comes from the Ego, the part that separates, individuates, a person from the Unity. I believe that that is our purpose, that it has been selected that we experience this state (ego) and that there's a reason why the human experience is one of imagining the illusion as a 'real' world to play in.

So, I believe there is a 'safe' Universe, the one in which we've chosen to experience pain and pleasure, and all the other transitory events we perceive in the limited lifespan of the material, sensational world. The one that exists outside of our normal, limited understanding. That is the place I live: Accepting a great, all-encompassing existence outside of what I perceive, outside of my illusions, that in its nothing-matters existence is actually, by definition, not creating suffering.

That's our job.

We can also choose (there's the ego again) to go beyond ourselves and seek a life in this world that is beyond the ego-trap. Fine, but that's the end of communication with other people.

I think only a strong ego would lead to such a choice.

Food and Diet Section

Today's Weight:                   205.2 lbs.

Previous Weight (12/18):          204.8 lbs.

Net Loss/Gain:                   +  0.4 lbs.

Diet Comment

My weekend ended, literally, with a huge meal of not-good-for-me food, courtesy of a steak chain I will not be returning to. The occasion was a Christmas get-together with some friends, I was the fifth-wheel invite, had no input into the venue. I tried to make do, but there was nothing good. And I was hungry. Bad combination. After dinner, I went home and passed out. I would have seen a nice loss for the weekend, otherwise.

Food Log

Breakfast
A Quest bar.

Lunch

Salmon salad (Wild Alaska pink salmon, celery, mayonnaise) on baby kale, baby spinach, chard and cole slaw mix.

Snack
Celery and almond butter.

Dinner

Sriracha chicken breast and a Quest bar with almond butter.

Snack
Celery and almond butter.

Liquid Intake
   Espressos: 1;  Coffee:  24 oz.;  Water: 80+ oz.

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