On Positionality

I begin this concept as I left off of the last: Egoic Interference.

As we have established from the previous article, the Ego exists to put your events into a "me first" type of attitude. It takes possession of reality by making events happen around you.

So, why do we consider this a problem?

My answer is this: the Ego gives us an improper and inefficient focus in life. Namely, the animalistic concept of threat or the narcissistic concept of duality. Let me explain this further.

First we will take the view that the Ego is a relic of our uncivilized times, when people had to work off of instinct to stay alive, the Ego was conditioned to immediately recognize events in reality and place them in a "How does this affect me" category. Back then, there was really no problem with that. You had to worry whether or not you were about to get eaten, starve to death, or any number of legitimate threats that existed. As humanity has progressed, we have moved to the top of the food-chain, and have virtually no natural predators except ourselves. However, our relic, the Ego, still exists. This Ego, conditioned to react aggressively, only serves to immediately categorize all the events around you in a fight or flight set of responses. As we have grown up, our Ego has not.

Second, we will take the esoteric religious concept of Ego. This is the idea that the Ego exists and, for whatever reason, only serves to inhibit our personal growth. You can find examples of this in nearly any esoteric religious interpretation of humanity. When Jesus says, "Pray for those who persecute you," He is speaking about the optimal condition: a lack of Ego. When Buddha says, "All wrong-doing arises because of mind. If mind is transformed can wrong-doing remain?" He is talking about, again, the lack of Ego.

The impact of this is: our Ego gets in the way of legitimate thinking. When you combine lightning fast decision making with the negativity that permeates our life, you have a recipe for a downward spiral of emotional conflict and psychological trauma.

As you live your life, making judgments, feeding your ego, getting pissed off at so and so, or repeating unhealthy relationships endlessly, you age. What is really happening in life is simple: you are making yourself age, and ultimately die, faster. Everyone progresses in years from the point they are born until they die. However, if you pay attention, you can see that everyone around you appears to be suffering.

At this point I will explain one more concept, that of suffering. Suffering, very simply, is a negative attachment to feeling pain. Pain, as everyone knows, is a natural part of life. It is the way we learn from, or adapt to, situations. When a person experiences pain, they have two ways to respond. The first is the non-Egoic reaction. In that reaction, the pain is analyzed and understood peacefully. This causes the pain to be dissipated rapidly, and the experience is learned from. The second reaction is the Egoic reaction: suffering. You are in pain and you start making judgments about it. "I can't believe that he would say that to me... He HATES me!" Or fill in any other comment that you have heard, or made yourself. When a person attaches negative thoughts to pain, the pain lingers. It also, more importantly, is not *dealt* with. It is repressed behind all sorts of new thoughts you are thinking (your abusive boyfriend, your micromanaging boss, your own stupidity), and it will hide there forever if it can. As you might be able to see when the reason for the pain is hiding, it cannot be removed. You will forget about it eventually, but it will still be in your body - causing you headaches while you sleep.

This is the end result of being a positional being; An inability to adapt and learn from mistakes. A (shorter) lifetime of suffering and ignorance. So, what does it mean when this mindset is transcended? That will be our topic for the next post!

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