Quote Originally Posted by SKA View Post
Thanks so much, Non-Dualistic, for your words have brough me peace of mind. Peace I desperately needed. It is truth I know by heart and your words re-unified me with it. Yet in the end my Ego is still blinding me. Overpowering me.

I see it in myself and in the people around me. The same blessings and the same curses.
Just... Both within myself and within those around me I more often than not see Ego triumph over Consciousness(Divine Self, God, Krishna, Johnny or whatever you wish to call it)

How do I put this wisdom to practicality to overcome the blindness and destructive patterns of the Ego?
How is this wisdom applicable to a lifestyle?
Examples:

Be kind to everything and everyone, including oneself, all the time, with no exceptions.
Revere all of life in all its expressions, no matter what, even if one does not understand it.
Presume no actual reliable knowledge of anything at all. Ask God to reveal its meaning.
http://consciousnessproject.org/arti...f-great-value/

Quote Originally Posted by Speesh View Post
Perhaps its that need to ask how that is at fault? So it seems that peace can only exist when the mind frees itself from belief and method, to unconditionally accept all that is, even if "you" don't like it. Instead of seeking for more method, more pattern, seek the seeker. At least that's probably what Ramana Maharshi would probably say.
I don't think Ramana would say that. The common misconception is that the seeker is what you're looking for, or that one should "seek the seeker." The problem is that they're dualistic concepts. What you're really "seeking" is the non-dualistic Self, which doesn't need to be sought. Seeking implies separation, but there is no other Reality apart from the Self; there is no separation. The term "seeking" needs to be re-contextualized into a devotional practice whereby illusory concepts are simply given up (but that's just one method).

Quote Originally Posted by Speesh View Post
I bet we're in a very similar place right now, SKA. Now that I have knowledge of how pointless and destructive my "illusion of self" is, I see it all the time. Though unfortunately most of the time only in retrospect. For some reason despite all this "knowledge" I can't seem to help falling back into unconscious reactivity as time slips by.
You can't "help it" because it is not something you can control, and it's something you're resisting. Meditation reminds you of this. It takes on a more realistic stance of acceptance and witnessing rather than to be controlling and perceiving.

Quote Originally Posted by Speesh View Post
Looking for freedom from the ego seems to inevitably cause very thick and paradoxical philosophy, even though the truth is supposedly very simple. I've caused myself a lot of grief from my obsession with it. Gave myself headaches from constantly deliberating. Its honestly caused me to give up seeking. It seems to me I'll never get there if I'm looking for it, because the looking itself is just another projection of that sick ego. Freedom will either come or it won't, trying to facilitate it is only more of the ego's resistance.
All paradoxes are resolved with spiritual investigation. You're giving yourself headaches and problems because you're trying to sort this out with the mind. That is exactly what you should not do. It's not a bad thing though, it's just a tendency of human consciousness. A lot of "work" is needed before the paradigm of the intellect is resolved through spiritual awareness rather than concepts alone. If you simply give up the frustration by examining that it is you that has deemed yourself to be frustrated, then you will no longer have it.