Remember the six senses? Senses enable us to experience life as human. These senses allow us to have feelings when they meet their objects.
But can we control these feelings from arising? It might not be easy, but we can acknowledge feelings arise without any judgements. We can acknowledge pleasant contacts as pleasant, without any attachments, or unpleasant contacts as unpleasant without any dislike or even aversion.
Ego, is something inside the mind that naturally asking to be satisfied at all times and repeat pleasant things endlessly and keep the unpleasant to go away and never occur again. This is the nature of ego, some people have tamed it, but most are the other way round.
Now, the question is, should we have ego? It is hard to live in the society without it. Temptations come every single second and very subtle in a way that one might never aware of it coming up. Temptations come from the mind, to satisfy all the senses whenever possible.
To let go our ego is to free the mind from attachment of sensual desires, to acknowledge pleasant as pleasant, unpleasant as unpleasant and just doing your work and routines as necessary mindfully.
The next question is, why should we let go our ego? The more you feed your ego, the harder it grips you. As long as we have senses, the desire will never cease to exists.
It is everyone choice to develop the wisdom. Only a fool loves dirt, like flies love to perch in dirt, they never realized that it was dirt.
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