What happens when I erase my ego to allow my inner self to blossom?
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outcome
"The attempt to erase the ego in pursuit of enlightenment only masks it with a saintly facade, creating a deeper inner conflict and blocking the true blossoming of your being."
According to Osho, the very attempt to erase the ego in order to gain anything—status, holiness, inner blossoming—is the ego’s subtlest strategy. The motive corrupts the act; you don’t dissolve ego, you enthrone it under a saintly cloak, creating inner conflict. Such “egolessness” breeds a bigger, more dangerous ego, blocking authentic flowering rather than allowing it.
If you try to drop your ego to get a reward, your ego just puts on holy clothes and grows bigger.
Why this matters practically
- Examine whether your humility or renunciation hides ambition.
- Avoid spiritual competition; it feeds a subtler, more dangerous ego.
- Seeing this contradiction ends inner tug-of-war.
- Avoid spiritual competition; it feeds a subtler, more dangerous ego.
- Seeing this contradiction ends inner tug-of-war.
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