Is it wrong then to be proud of one's possessions or to feel resentful toward people who have more than you? Not at all. That sense of pride, of needing to stand out, the apparent enhancement of one's self through "more than" and diminishment through "less than" is neither right nor wrong -- it is the ego.
The ego isn't wrong; it's just unconscious.
When you observe the ego in yourself, you are beginning to go beyond it. Don't take the ego too seriously. When you detect egoic behavior in yourself, smile.
At times you may even laugh.*
How could humanity have been taken in by this for so long? Above all, know that the ego isn't personal. It isn't who you are. If you consider the ego to be your personal problem, that's just more ego.
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*It's not working for me right now, but nearly every time when I set my mind on arriving at presence in the Now, it arrives with a tiny chuckle. It's more of a release than anything. That, I get every time, without fail, to the point that the two are the same thing to me now.
Presence equals release, borderline hilarity.
What else could it feel like, to unburden yourself of the weight of the past and the future?
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