Learning
Coconut remind us to smash ego:
The ego is what keeps you locked away in your own little world, separated from the present moment.
In the other words –
Whenever there is any identification, it means with something else – that you are not. One can be identified with the body, with the mind. But the moment one is identified, one is lost to oneself. This is what ego means. This is how ego is formed and becomes crystallized.
Whenever you assert “I,” there is identification with something – with some name, with some form, with somebody, with some past; with mind, with thoughts, with memories. There is some deep identification: only then you can assert “I.” If you are not identified with anything else and can remain with yourself, then you cannot say “I”; the “I” just drops.
“I” means identity.
Identity is the basis of all slavery: Be identified and you will be in a prison.
The very identity will become your prison. Be non-identified, remain totally yourself, and then there is freedom. So this is what bondage is: Ego is the bondage, and egolessness is freedom. And this ego is nothing but to be identified with something that you are not.
When the mind is projecting something which is not, it is avidya .When this mind destroys all projections, all identifications, remains without any projective activity, then this method of destroying all projections, all that is not, but appears to be – is called vidya. Vidya is not knowledge; again, vidya is a positive force to destroy all that which avidya creates. Vidya is untranslatable. Vidya means a positive force in you which can destroy ego formation. Both are positive: avidya creates that which is not, and vidya destroys that which is not. So vidya means yoga, vidya mean the science of religion.
So what it says:
Recognising any egoic behaviour and becoming free of ego are the same thing. The moment you become aware of your thoughts or emotions, you break your identification with them. They may still be there, but you will no longer identify with them.
Learning from Coconut: Drop Identity
