Prosperity Engine — Update — Glorious Ego

[image error] The Devil — symbol of everything evil, and symbolic of the ego false self. Image: #2838965_1920 by Waldkunst (CC0) Pixabay.

The job of the ego is to oppose you in your quest to become more spiritual. In fact, the word “satan,” in Hebrew, means “adversary,” “opposition” or “to accuse.” Ego—the devil, Satan or “Master of this world,” is clever, because it has unlimited access to all of your intelligence. It knows all of your secrets and your weaknesses.

With such a formidable opponent, what can we do?

First of all, let go. Don’t resist. As Christ said, “But I say unto you, That ye resist not evil: but whosoever shall smite thee on thy right cheek, turn to him the other also” (Matthew 5:39).

Second, admire ego for a job well done. How many millions of years has it kept you here? Kudos to ego.

Third, be grateful for ego making you stronger. How are muscles and bones made stronger? By opposition. Thank you, ego!

We give up resisting evil because resistance is effort, doubt, failure and making evil stronger. Do you want evil to be stronger? Do you want more struggle and failure?

Giving up resistance allows you to be spiritual, instead of physical.

Conversion of Egoistic Desires



[image error] Devil and angel, representing the dichotomous choices of the physical universe, and also representing the structure of ego. Image: #2693196_1920 DarkSouls1 (CC0) Pixabay.

In Kabbalah of Bnei Baruch, they teach increasing ego only to convert its selfish intent into one of altruism.

As in martial arts, when an opponent lunges at you, sometimes it helps to use their forward momentum to knock them off balance. With ego, helping its selfish desires suddenly puts you in control. The next moment, pride is turned into humility, or laziness is turned into industrious responsibility.

One lesson given involves a story of a rich man and his poor friend. They enjoy each other’s company and philosophical discussions. One day, the rich man threw a banquet in honor of his poor friend. When the friend arrived, he took one look at the banquet table, filled with all his favorite foods, and felt suddenly guilty.

“Oh, this is too much,” he said, “I don’t deserve all of this.”

This deeply saddened the rich man, for he had wanted to please his friend.

When the poor man saw that he had made his host sad, he thought for a moment how to resolve his current predicament. Then, inspiration gave him his solution.

Instead of eating the banquet with selfish satisfaction, he would enjoy the food for the benefit of his host.

So, in life, we can enjoy all that God has prepared for us for His benefit, as thanks for all He has done for us. Suddenly, ego, along that vector of intention, has been dissolved.

Prosperity Engine Progress

Plans frequently hit rough patches. I suspect there is a hidden, subconscious belief about that—a belief that needs to be cleaned up. But I’m finding it easier not to get upset with missing a target or a deadline I’ve set for myself. I keep reminding myself that any frustration or upset is counterproductive and works against self-improvement. After all, it is a “resistance” toward evil. And incompetence is selfishly evil.

Think about that for a moment. Incompetence is selfish and evil. This means that even attempting to perform a miracle and failing is itself selfish and evil. But getting down on yourself for failing is also evil. The only spot to be is a zero ego—having neither aversion for the current condition (failure) nor desire for some other condition (success). Both aversion and desire knock us off balance—off the center position of “create.”

I’m enjoying my favorite empowerment question more and more:

What does it feel like to be the Rod Martin, Jr. of galactic exploration, terraformed Mars, and hundreds of InDyn University campuses?

With each of the three parts of this question, there is a very specific feeling that is unlike anything else in my 70+ years of experience. Even my $5 million in the bank, short-term goal, doesn’t even come close. That dollar figure is “boring,” while the feeling attached to a fleet of galactic exploration ships is satisfying. Even the terraformed Mars—though satisfying—is a tiny bit more boring (very tiny, but still noticeable).

The dollar figure attached to that empowerment question is in the multi-quadrillionaire range of net worth. But the money, itself, is far from satisfying. It’s what can be done with the money that is meaningful. That level of operation means pulling together a team of excited and creative individuals who solve all of the problems of technology and logistics to pull off a project that huge.

Coming Up Next

Next week, we switch gears and look at the massive election fraud in America and one of the elements of Democrat justification for their crimes—terror about “climate change” destroying the world. A simple analysis of this problem reveals some startlingly simple solutions.