To drop Your Ego first you need to have a concrete Ego

Many things have been written on ego ,every religious and spiritual thinker believes that ego is behind all forms of human misery either directly or indirectly and as a result it is always instructed that human beings must try to get rid of this ego , even i do feel that if a man really wants to live a happy and peaceful life he should sooner or later he needs to get rid of his ego ,because ego is nothing but a convoluted insatiable entity that can never be satisfied,the more you will try to appease it the more it's expectations increases ,But the point is though it seems very simple to say that drop your ego and live a happy life its easier said than done ,it is one of the most difficult task to be accomplished (especially for a person who has got an egoistic persona).The very basic reason is ego as a whole is generally not a very concrete idea but rather a confused state of mind .In fact an egoist person is himself very confused ,he him self find it tough to comprehend his ego in exact terms,he knows that ego is something that gives him pain but at the same time since his own persona is some how intermixed with ego in such a way that he really finds it tough to drop it as an separate entity.

But there is a technique available to drop one's ego ,and that is not to fight with ego but to nourish it.It sounds paradoxical but that's the way the world is ,by nourishing i mean rather than fighting with one's ego one should first try to develop it ,so that over a period of time it should no more remain as a confusion but as a concrete idea , an idea that is clearly palpable.Once the idea becomes concrete it becomes easy to drop it. Remember one thing only some thing concrete can be dropped ,an abstraction can never be dropped so first make your ego exist ,first make it happen and then drop .Now there is no more confusion,now ego is no more an abstraction but a clear cut reality whose futility and meaningless can be viewed by the human mind,now as individual man will no more be confused and now his action of dropping is not based on any external instruction but on his own understanding and awareness.

In short i will say that rather fighting a futile battle with one's ego first man should try to follow his ego,as an individual we all are unique and all have some sort of desires,we all want to prove ourselves so rather than first dropping our ego we should first try to pacify it, we should first try to celebrate our individuality,and after this celebration when we are really contended with our-self,once when we start viewing ourselves as an elevated individual then there in that moment of glory we find that though we were craving for this but this nothing but a nuisance and there in that moment of awareness we drop down our ego completely.

REFERENCE:- a) NEW MAN FOR NEW MILLENNIUM: OSHO
b) FREEDOM:- OSHO

Meditation:a path to transform Oneself

 Many things have been said and written on the benefits of meditation, Here in this post of mine i will like write my own perspective on meditation ,though meditation as an idea is a vast concept, and it might take many post to give a complete description of meditation as a concept, so here i will just like to emphasis on how can meditate help in changing or rather transforming an individual. Often in various books and magazines we come across articles regarding changing one self ,such articles are always very interesting and inspiring ,since as individual we all have some disgust with ourselves such articles give us an inspiration to change ourselves , we try to follow the instructions given and generally we do get some positive results initially but after some time the motivation goes away and we again go back to our old position ,Finally the net effect is zero.

Though we fill bad for it but in reality the problem is not exactly in us,these articles and these motivational authors miss a very critical point of human psyche, as individuals our actions , our behavior our feelings and our attitude is predominantly not dependent on our conscious but on the vast realm of our sub consciousness mind of which we hardly have any control.Our mind is just like an ocean ,there is a thin upper surface which is our consciousness but inside the consciousness there is a huge subconsciousness that governs us ,The structure of this sub consciousness is a very complicated ,it is influenced by various factors ranging from our attitudinal inclination,our genetic structure, our style of up bringing ,our social atmosphere where we have been born and brought, many of the incidents that have happened to us that had some sort of impact on us, along with these various other factors that constitute this vast and large subconsciousness.
Now this sub consciousness that governs our mind ,what ever we do or what kind of behavior we follow originally depends on our belief system ,on surface it looks that we are doing things either consciously or out of just habit but in reality what ever we do we do due to some of our deep beliefs, in surface every things look simple but in reality for each and every simple task of ours there is some deep belief, there is some priority that we follow,there is some craving and preference that governs most of our day to day activities,these all stuff lie in our sub consciousness .

So any activity that aims to change us as a human being is bound to fail until unless it does not put focus on controlling our sub conscious. Now when it comes to a technique that really understands the sub consciousness fully and can get deep inside it is nothing but MEDITATION.

ITS not that sub conscious mind is some thing so complex that we cannot comprehend it, but we are so deeply engaged in our day to day activities , there is so much of chaos in our life that we lack the focus and peace that is needed to observe the mind ,meditation does nothing but gives us the required peace and focus so that we can observe the sub consciousness, once when we start observing the sub consciousness we become familiar with ,we get a fresh hand idea of what is happening inside us ,we start getting deep into our mind and after getting deep and deep we really become familiar with the set few core beliefs in us that govern most of our activities , and then once the roots are known it becomes very simple to make the required change. Your inability to change yourself is nothing but your ignorance of yourself and and you can achieve control and command by doing nothing special but by just becoming more and more aware of your self.This awareness can be achieved by the power of observation that MEDITATION can imparts in us.