The Illusion of an Illusion

Consider this paradox - part of the "story" (illusion) that the ego is "selling" you, is that you are NOT an ego and therefore you must seek to find the real "self."

You may attribute this desire to God (or anything you like) but no matter, it is the ego that is informing you that you need to NOT be an "ego." The ego speaks in "tongues" and if you want it to, it will tell you that you are God.

How could it not be selling you that story (illusion) since the need to "buy" it means you acknowledge that YOU are an ego IN an illusion or else you would not be seeking for a way out. Sadly, the way out of the illusion is just another part of the illusion.

Although you recognize that you are IN the ego illusion, you THINK there is a way out of the illusion. All you need do is simply refuse to buy into the ego's illusion.

The problem is, that not buying into the illusion (story) is simply part of the illusion. It's like an M.C. Escher painting, which staircase do you choose to ascend to God. Unfortunately, they all lead to each other. Round and round we go.

In fact, in the illusion the ego even informs that "hey we don't need to transcend, we already are transcended." The problem is that though the ego informs that I have transcended suffering, when I open my eyes I may be "looking out from my soul," yet if I am still a body, I continue to be imprisoned by the body's limitations and hence, suffer with the body. But, wait a minute I'm transcended!!!

The ego loves to conjure up dreams of dreaming that you are dreaming. Each dream seems a little more High Def., but it's a dream all the same. Yet, I will not stop seeking to transcend the ego and thus, the story within a story, the illusion of transcending illusion, continues on ad infinitum.

As krisnamurti (U.G. and Jiddu) proclaimed "truth is a pathless land." There is no path to teach and whatever is taught cannot be the way, simply because ego must teach ego how not to be ego. Kinda like the blind leading the blind, don't you think?

Nevertheless it is fun to talk about...