How to Pass through the Eye of a Needle: The Ego & SuperEgo

​Dear All,

Here's a quick tip about overcoming the mental barriers that may be holding you back from success in something.

One of the things that becomes apparent to you, sooner or later, when you're practicing sahaja yoga meditation is that you're not your mind.

Even if you're able to achieve 'thoughtless awareness' for a few seconds at a time  - when you're walking, commuting, at work, or sitting down to meditate at home, then for those few seconds you've managed to transcend your mind. You're free of any mental barriers.

Then in that state, the universe of wonderful possibilities which was artificially limited by the false cacoon of ego (thoughts about the future) and super-ego (thoughts about the past) opens up to you.

This is how it is that with a little meditation, things you may have been struggling with in personal life or at work just work out, sometimes in quite surprising ways.

It's as if you had been struggling to thread a needle because the eye of the needle was so small and then suddenly the eye of the needle becomes very big and the thread passes easily through it.

In the iconography of sahaja yoga, the ego is ruled by the archetype represented by the awakened Buddha. This 4 minute clip from the movie Little Buddha, shows the Buddha (Keanu Reeves) at the point of final emancipation. 

In it he is overcoming the fears and insecurities (negative self-talk we sometimes have), personified as Mara ('evil twin'/ Ego). The part where the flaming arrows aimed at him turn into a shower of flower petals is a great analogy of what happens in sahaja yoga meditation when you experience your worries & problems turn into positive outcomes. Click here. 

See you at group meditation in tomorrow.

Regards