The Ego Mind

The “Ego Mind” has been referred to as the mind that gets you in trouble, causes you to do bad things, is the cause of you being arrogant and it is responsible for your search for acceptance of others. Ecarte Tolle even alludes to the Ego Mind being the source of all conflict and if you train your Ego Mind so that it stops appearing in your life, then you will be free of conflict within your life. If all of this is the case, what is the ego mind and how does it relate to what we have already discovered on this website? Lets find out…

Considering that the ego mind is the cause of conflict, if we define how we cause conflict from what we already know about conflict, then we can define the ego mind. Since we know from the negative emotions article that all conflict starts when we begin to judge either others or yourself, then we can conclude that the ego mind, as defined by psychologists and people in general, is simply those thoughts that judge either others or yourself.

Also, as we know from the “Who am I?” article, we are the chooser of our thoughts. This is important because it says that we are not our thoughts, like the judgmental thoughts associated with the ego mind. Therefore, we are not our ego mind.  However, since we are the chooser of our thoughts, we are in control of those thoughts that judge others or yourself, or the ego mind. Therefore, we control our ego mind and it is not another mind trying to control us.

Since we control the ego mind and the ego mind is just a classification of judgmental thoughts, then the ego mind is just thoughts you control. In other words, there is no such thing as an ego mind.

There is No Such Thing As An Ego Mind

We choose thought.

We choose to think judgmental thoughts.

The Ego Mind are thoughts you think that are judgmental thoughts.

You control the ego mind by controlling your thoughts and realizing THERE IS NO EGO MIND.

To conclude, the “Ego Mind” is just the classification of thoughts that judge people. So the way to eliminate the ego mind is to understand that there is no ego mind. You just need to be aware of what you are judging and the conflict from your “Ego Mind” will be eliminated from your life.