Freedom from Illusion: The Book of Ego

We live in times of "Fake News" and wonder from where all these issues of distortion of reality come from. Osho identifies our "Fake Personalities" as the root cause, also called "The Ego". The ego means your ambition to be superior to others, to be higher than others, to be bigger than you really are; in every field to be more important, to be somebody who has power over people either through politics or through money. All these are differentdimensions of your ego. And if you go on fulfilling these desires you can never come to a state of contentment, fulfillment, because the ego is just like the horizon. It looks so close - as if you just have to walk a little more and you will reach it. But by the time you have reached there, the horizon has also moved away. The ego is your psychological horizon. You can go on, but you will never come to a point when you can say, "My ego is satisfied."And because you are trying to fulfill the ego, you forget your real task. Who is going to discover your real self, which is not the ego? This book is an anthology of the complex issues of the ego, ambition, power and destructiveness from the perspective of a contemporary mystic. Osho shows the way to liberation from the illusions of the personality through an internal revolution - the "Psychology of the Buddhas." The ego is just the opposite of your real self. The ego is not you. It never allows you even a glimpse of your real authentic self, and your life is there, in your authenticity. Hence, this ego only produces misery, suffering, fighting, frustration, madness and suicide. Osho proposes a rebellious approach and the greatest rebellion is to become an authentic watcher of our ego. The opposite of the ego is not humbleness. Osho warns us not to fall into suchmisunderstandings. The egoless person is not humble, because in humbleness the ego can hide, it can play a new role. It can give you the sense that you are the most humble person around, but then the ego has come from the back door. An egoless person is neither egoistic nor humble, he is simply authentic, he is simply true. Whether you enjoy his truth or you are hurt by his truth, does not matter.