The ego needs props for an identity born of ideas, images and thought. 

It searches for perfection through the mind – for an identity that never dies.  This process is like trying to catch smoke with your hand.

The ego is driven by a will to dominate and control, with no consideration for others. It needs to be somebody, because it cannot bear to be nobody.

It is a false identity that exists only within the mind and it dissolves without attention.  It is only illusion that we exist, separate from existence -- we do not.

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Tantra says don’t fight. If you fight you may continue your fight for many lives and nothing will happen out of it, because in the first place you have missed – where you have seen two was only one. And if the first step has been missed, you cannot reach the goal. Your whole journey is going to be continuously a missing. The first step has to be taken absolutely rightly, otherwise you will never reach the goal.

And what is the absolutely right thing? Tantra says it is to see the one in two, to see the one in many. Once you can see one in duality, already the transcendence has started. This is the royal path.

Now we will try to understand the sutra.

TO TRANSCEND DUALITY IS THE KINGLY VIEW.

To transcend, not to win – to transcend. This word is very beautiful. What does it mean, to "transcend"?

It is just as if a small child is playing with his toys. You tell him to put them away and he becomes angry. Even when he goes to sleep he goes with his toys, and the mother has to remove them when he has fallen asleep. In the morning the first thing that he demands to know is where his toys are and who has taken them away. Even in the dream he dreams about the toys. Then suddenly one day he forgets about the toys. For a few days they remain in the corner of his room, and then they are removed or thrown away; never again does he ask for them. What has happened?

We understand that the energies of April were very energetically challenging for you. Just like the stone that tumbles to be polished, you will find yourselves losing your hard edges. Know you will find a state of energetic refinement where you are feeling calmer, where you are feeling peaceful, where you are finding that a balanced, calm, very present energy is where you feel most comfortable.

What is so remarkable about that, and what none of you have quite recognized yet, is it means you bring your peace with you everywhere you go. It is not dependant upon another human being. It is not dependant upon things looking a certain way in your world. It is not dependant upon wearing the right outfit, or being in a specific locale. Do you see? This is how far you have shifted and this is exactly what you have been wanting to create for yourselves – a deeply peaceful way of being that has become your very own foundation. ~Archangel Gabriel

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Humanity has an inner opponent and it is called the human ego. The human ego was created during the fall of man when we chose to descend in consciousness, which led to a perceived separation from our Creator. Although we are never truly separated from the Creator Of All That Is, this fall in consciousness made us feel we were no longer connected in oneness to every other soul or to our Creator. Our consciousness began to fragment as we fell into duality and separation consciousness, which brought forth a great deal of fear within our being. Our souls were accustomed to living in oneness and the full embrace of the Creators love – we had never experienced this kind of fear before. Because we felt we were separated and powerless, our fears created an alter identity called the ego or the lower self. The ego is a fear filled extension of our souls and it is not connected to the loving guidance of our true selves that reside in a higher vibrating dimension within our energy fields. Out of desperation and confusion our souls allowed our egos to become the dominating source of guidance within our beings, which has created blocks and barriers between our incarnated soul and our true selves/spiritual selves.

The first step toward awakening is to ask the question, “What am I feeling?”

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