Surrendering the Ego

[zenmaster]

What is ego?
http://www.llresearch.org/transcripts/is..._0414.aspx

The energy of the mind could be seen primarily to be that energy of the orange-ray chakra and the yellow-ray chakra which together form what is known among your peoples as the ego. The ego or the personality shell dwells within those two energies.

I would agree that the 'personality shell' defines certain parameters for experiencing a portion of self. The 'energy of the mind' concept seems ambiguous though. Obviously all energetic bodies, and the ability to evolve in the first place (use free will, make choices, etc), are intimately related to mind. The mind is what allows the spirit to actualize and what sustains the body.

What I think is confusing people, is that green, being the beginning of transpersonal awareness, is 1) so different from orange and yellow with respect to the typical 'role' of self, and 2) orange and yellow tend to take so much of 3rd density to transcend, that we tend to disassociate some objectified part of ourselves with those lower energies.

However, people also tend to get stuck at the beginning of green, becoming overwhelmed or overly identified with the energy that it suggests. I think this happens because it is somehow regarded as a 'peak' of spirituality and put onto a pedestal as a cherished, fragile, and rare gift. The huge limitation of this attitude, or with any newly discovered awareness, is that there still is a clinging identification at work and a presumption that all 'answers' come from this energy . It's like a deer caught in headlights.

Beginning of green provides the awareness of the validity of the subjective mind, "everyone is right", the idea that we create our own reality, the notion of the witness of the separating thoughts, being spiritually "centered", the notion of harmony and relationship to all, a sense of the fullness or abundance in the present moment, etc.

It is almost as if many people need to first become overly fixated and quite lost in an unbalanced 'idea of green', in order to eventually find some place for and to actually make use of the supporting energy.