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ML7172CAN3 - Is there a permanent ego?
Malibu, California - 24 January 1972
Conversation with Alain Naudé 3
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Is there a permanent ‘me’?
Unless I am free from the vulgar, I will continue representing the whole vulgarity of man.
I lead the usual life, along the small river, following that current. I am that current and ‘the me’ is bound to continue in that stream, with millions of others. I’m not different from those millions of others.
When you say, ‘My brother is dead,’ and ask whether he is living, as a separate consciousness, I question whether he was ever separate from the stream.
There is no permanent self. If there was a permanent self, it would be this stream.
Realising that I am like the rest of the world, that there is no ‘me’ separate, I can incarnate if I step out of the stream.
Change takes place away from the stream; in the stream there is no change.
What happens if you step out of the stream? The stepping out is the incarnation.
When the man of the stream steps out and looks, he has compassion.