Don’t egoize! ~The Dispossessed
I am thinking of “to ego” as a verb. The difference between “egoing” and “unegoing” (this sounds less elegant… new term suggestions welcome).
I prefer this to the notion of egolessness. It’s not that egoless as a term is wrong (as far as I can tell) but it seems to overemphasize for me a sense of willful getting rid of that I don’t find as helpful. More often, in close investigation of moment to moment experience, I find a choice to release grasping, leading to an “unegoing” or an “unegoed” experience. But I can so quickly and easily re-grasp, leading to an egoing again.
This is semantic, but the idea of oscillating between these processes of egoing and unegoing resonates more than continuously reforming and releasing something like an ego that neither exists nor does not exist.1
Footnotes
-
Although, is ego an “existing” element of conventional reality, as real as the rest of it? Or is it part of the “false reality”? ↩