Surrendering the ego.

In this podcast, Eckhart answers questions from a live audience.

He addresses topics like surrendering the ego, what to do with anger, and how to confront our fears.

Eckhart says, fear arises when we become drawn into negative thinking and project it into the future. He goes on to say that most of the time, fear has no basis in reality, because when the future finally arrives, it's actually the present moment again. And in the present moment, there is usually nothing to fear.

At heart, my question is around surrender.

I'm curious.

Once the egoic shell has cracked open and the light of consciousness is peeking through. Can the ego

surrender itself to that light of consciousness or ultimately must it be surrendered? I often talk of the

ego as if it were an entity. It's not really an entity, it acts as if it were an entity.

It seems to be an entity that has taken possession of you.

But ultimately, what it is, it's only a particular way

of your mind to function, an identification with the mind.

So the ego itself is that dysfunctional way

in which the mind works.

And when that comes to an end,

the dysfunctional way cannot put an end to its own dysfunction.

It can only dissolve when awareness arises.

Awareness is not thought.

Awareness is consciousness prior to thought

and you realize that you are that

and whatever the mind produces and says are thoughts.

But the thoughts are then no longer end out with the sense of self

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