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Otoharo!

I am rounding the bend of my road of progress. One thing that is coming to me is how confusing our conversation can get when we each are on separate roads going perhaps up the same mountain, but what we say about where we are and what lies ahead may have no similarity at all to what the next person says about where they are and what lies ahead.

I lifted up out of the marrass of my road and could see far in the distance, a vista new to me yet ancient at the same time. I knew I was in a transcendence rather than a transformation or transmutation. Does that make any sense to you? Likely not! Yet it makes all kinds of sense to me. It is likely that what I am describing is my entrance into fourth demension. I know fourth demension from my ancient past, but the me in this body does not know it. Does that make sense? I will just have to wait and see.

However, ego can not go where i am going. I caught myself getting lured by ego today, while I was in the transcendence! And I caught it! I recognized that it was simply a lure of ego. Not real. What is real to me is love and joy.

Some people say only love is real, but joy is definitely real and more real to me than anything else.

I am saying all this on the reiki board becasue this is a result of daily self reiki, weekly distance from another, and the lure of reiki that underlies all else in life.

I am definitely on the high road!

finality

Dear Finality,
There are days that I wonder if Ego is what some call the Devil. It is most certainly a temptress and when you want it to, it surely can boost you down a path, not necessarily one of love and joy.
I find it very difficult to catch my ego at work when I am absorbed with it, for example, when Im convinced Im right about something. My mother says that I was born with an attitude of I will do it MY way!! ( I think she confused the terrible twos with my personality but....) It is hard to reconize when Ego is in charge. For some reason Im convinced at a very deep level that if I listen too deeply to others, like those sailors who heard the Song of the Sirens and were lured to a rocky death, that I will turn away from my path, whatever that ii. Even with a strong desire not to be led, I still find myself following others. Its the old two sides of one coin issue, in all things there are opposites forces at work. Balance is a never ending tightrope walk.
Ego is a great teacher.
Joy is appreciation, an expression of gratitude.
Thank you for talking about Ego...I needed that!!
peace & joy,
holobon