Why Is Ego Essential to Awakening?

A man asks why the ego is essential to the process of recognition. Rupert starts by saying that an illusion is real, but is not what it appears to be. A mirage in a desert appears as water, but its reality is light. Something that is not real has no existence even as an illusion, like a square circle. Therefore, there is no value in investigating a square circle; but if you investigate the mirage of water you will come to see it for what it is, the play of light. The temporary finite self that is the ego is not unreal, it is an illusion. But there is a reality to it, and that reality is being. So, investigating the ego is vital because each time we investigate it and see that it's reality is being, the sense of separation diminishes.

From event 20 - 29 August, 2023 Ten Day Retreat at Castello di Titignano – August 2023

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