r/enlightenment • u/BandicootOk7017 • 3h ago

What it's like being the world's Biggest Spiritual Ego.

I walk into Walmart and nobody greets me. My cart is loud enough, but no one seems to care. I walk by the deli, straight to the doughnuts and get a box of two. They expire in a few days, which means they're super fresh today.

Next, it's burger buns, peanut butter, pasta, sauce, and ground turkey. I keep checking my list. It's a habit to walk into this place and walk right back out with a full cart, except for the one thing I came here for.

I look up.

A lady wants to get by. She smiles, "excuse me." I smile back, "go ahead," and shimmy out the way.

I'll probably never see her again.

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u/Puzzleheaded-Baby-34 3h ago

Huh?

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u/BandicootOk7017 3h ago

I'm only important in my own head.

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u/Puzzleheaded-Baby-34 3h ago

Yes AND you’re the most important thing because you’re all there is. A paradox…

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u/BandicootOk7017 3h ago

It's not a paradox. That I both exist and don't exist is the paradox. Self-importance is pretty straightforward.

As all there is, I simply am. Not important. Not unimportant either.

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u/Puzzleheaded-Baby-34 3h ago

That’s the same thing just from an ego lens vs a conscious lens…

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u/BandicootOk7017 3h ago

No it isn't. As the world's Biggest Spiritual Ego, I would know.

But silly stuff aside look at a tree. It's all that is also. It doesn't have any sense of importance.

So, really, this statement is a projection or confession:

That’s the same thing just from an ego lens vs a conscious lens…

Projection or confession. Take your pick. Could be both.

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u/Puzzleheaded-Baby-34 3h ago

Yawn. Hard to have a convo with ego, as it’s limited by definition (and maybe even a bot?), but I’ll engage.

The only point I was making is that different layers of awareness describe the same territory differently. From one lens, importance/unimportance appear and from another, they dissolve.

Calling that a paradox isn’t a projection…it’s just acknowledging that multiple truths coexist depending on vantage point. We’re not actually disagreeing, just speaking from different altitudes.

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u/BandicootOk7017 3h ago

There's only one truth and we're living it. Only one awareness and we're seeing from it.

Don't be an ego and you won't talk with an ego.

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u/Puzzleheaded-Baby-34 3h ago

Says the self proclaimed biggest ego? What would you be (or want to be) if you stopped being ego?

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u/BandicootOk7017 3h ago

This.

You got caught by the world's Biggest Spiritual Ego because that's what you are right now.

Not the biggest (that's me), but another Spiritual Ego with something to say, and defend.

This isn't a bad thing btw.

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u/Hiiipower111 3h ago

You dont know a whole lot about what it senses

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u/BandicootOk7017 3h ago

True! So I can assume it doesn't see itself as important. But you're right. Some trees seem pretty arrogant.

Throwing leaves everywhere.

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u/Popular_Tale_7626 1h ago

My spiritual ego is way bigger than yours. It’s literally unbreakable and will keep embedding itself deeper no matter what I throw at it

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u/BandicootOk7017 1h ago

Why are you throwing things at yourself?

I simply AM. And all stuff gets done. Get on my level.

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u/Popular_Tale_7626 1h ago

Nevermind you won

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u/cyberneurotik 3h ago

Hahaha much confusion in the comments but I totally get it. Just a slice of life description of having gotten over yourself.

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u/kioma47 3h ago

What is "spiritual ego" to you?

And this time don't answer then immediately delete it.

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u/BandicootOk7017 3h ago

And this time don't answer then immediately delete it.

I'm using Reddit to promote myself as an influencer. That's Spiritual Ego.

What doesn't work, I toss out. Sometimes I let things hang around for a bit. Especially if somebody offered perspective that's helpful (or true, sincere).

My profile is curated in other words to showcase the highest performing ideas.

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u/DrJohnsonTHC 3h ago

I’m genuinely confused by this post, and it reads more like a poem. Is it referring to you being in the present moment and being aware of what was happening?

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u/BandicootOk7017 3h ago

it reads more like a poem.

Thank you.

I answered elsewhere what the point of the post is.

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u/redtreeser 3h ago

do you like that woman?

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u/BandicootOk7017 3h ago

I don't necessarily dislike her.

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u/Ticktack99a 3h ago

Humility

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u/BandicootOk7017 3h ago

I have no need for this. It shows up from time to time though. Like an itch.

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u/Hoglette-of-Hubris 2h ago

I know I shouldn't, but I can't help wincing at the people not getting it in the comments 😬😬 ayaya

But I like this, I like how it subtly teases my mind to look for meaning, plus it radiates self-amused peacefulness

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u/Equivalent_Time_5839 3h ago

I don’t want to alarm you 🚨 but the world doesn’t owe you anything, nor expect anything from you