Ego makes you self conscious
When you are self conscious you are very egoistic. You think that you are a big entity and that everyone's eyes are on you all the time. The moment you start thinking that people are watching you, ego has stepped in and you lose your natural self. Children are not as self conscious as adults are. If you watch them play, you will see – there will be so much of beauty and innocence in the whole thing. Even when you take pictures of yourself and others, you will notice that pictures taken without you being aware that you are being photographed look much better than the ones taken asking you to pose for the camera. Your being is a river and you have made it stagnate with the so-called knowledge. Real knowledge is in knowing how to drop the knowledge that comes your way and live like a child, flowing with spontaneity. You need to move from ego to spontaneity.
I and Mine are pure Lies
Whatever we think as ours nothing like ours exists. I and me or I and mine which we are holding is a pure lie. All your mine is protected or supported just by law, the law of society, land has no law. Law of the land is beyond your comprehension. As long as you are caught with this concept of I and mine, you will not be able to realize the truth of this existence. You are caught thinking something as you, something as yours. Understand the drama which you are doing, game which you are playing. If you are playing the game to cheat others, it is ok. But you cheat yourself. By and by we forget, we started this game to cheat others and now we are cheating ourselves with this game. There is no I, no mine.
A person who is intelligent, who is willing to open eyes and see, will suddenly realize there is no I and no mine. Whatever you think as I, whatever you think as mine, this body, can you function without air. Even air does not belong to you. When it stops functioning, whatever you think as you does not belong to you. Whatever you think as you, root or base, does not belong to you. We take life for granted. I and mine both have no base. A person who is intelligent enough to open his eyes and see, whatever he thinks as I and whatever he thinks as mine - both are just drama. They are not under his control. The moment the breathing stops, immediately your name will be removed and will be given a new name dead body. Your house will not be useful, car will not be useful. What you think as I is baseless. Mine is also baseless.
We have built our personality on other opinions. We know nothing about ourselves; apart form what others have said about us. We know ourselves based on what society thinks about us. Just look into yourself. If society thinks that you are useless, you will start thinking that and go into depression. If society thinks that you are a great person, you will feel great.