Scents Of Soul

by Soren DreierThere is this place inside where nothing much happens, and yet all seems to take place there if we can build the bridge and be silent.
Many talk of dissolving the Ego, a talk that I don’t default agree with because of the equation: To meet the soul – we have to take down the ego. It is actually the stubbornness of the Ego, that will penetrate the outer layers of the soul. Ego – being the fuel for the pilgrim, not the brakes.
That comes later, as the Ego learns it must dissolve in order to give the soul its space on the account of evolution.

It maybe has to do with the internal direction of: Ego – Soul and Soul – Ego. It is not a one-way direction as many see it – it is a loop.
The soul transcends the ego and overtakes some part of the personality and we experience that as evolving since we feel or feel others getting in better touch with themselves. At least that is maybe how we describe it. And that is ‘transcending the ego’ of the inner realms.

Maybe before we kill the ego: befriend it, the ego is not the enemy. Ego has been a survival mechanism in times of hardship for many, so there actually is much to be grateful for.

So, seeing the ego only as an alien entity is a bit silly.
In the context of time, I think we put on more and less the ego we would have use for, in each life we live. In some lives, the ego might be solid as concrete while in other days in another time, under strange lit skies – light as a feather, it depends on the life-lessons in our Dharma.

Many talk about karma and equal it with: Times gone by that we now have to account for, but we produce karma every day, so there’s canned karma and then there is fresh from the market karma, so the actions we take every day, the thoughts we make, the feels we feel – loops into our future and will integrate in a new and hopefully much smaller ‘ego’ next time around.

So what lives on and get strengthened?

Obviously not the ego – but the soul – the diamond in the rough, the passionate flower with its sweetest of scents.

The soul is just not that loving entity, at peace with the God Force or the big epic light at the end of the improvement tunnel as it is advertised to be by default. It has the hallmarks, yes – but that is not the whole picture.
The battle of the soul, is far more deeper and difficult than the battle of the Ego. It’s metaphysical.

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