Some are ancient, handed down from generations past. Some are self-created, recent, only decades old.
The program talks to itself, reinforcing itself, holding itself together.
It creates the "other". Someone out there to be disliked, resisted, attached to, desired.
It creates incompleteness. A sense of always searching, seeking, desiring, hoping.
To live through the program - that is to be unconscious of it - is to feel this aching sense of inompleteness in everything. Nothing brings fulfillment because the program, the ego, the thought-made sense of self, is thought-created. It is the past trying to exist in the present moment.
Being born from thought means that the ego lives entirely in duality and is caught in the pleasure/pain cycle - seek pleasure, avoid pain.
All the mental/emotional narrative in the head is the ego trying to establish itself as the "I".
It is only trying to protect us from a psychological sense of threat - that is to say - illusory sense of threat. It only lives in our mind but if not seen for what it is, it will have great impact on the body and the world around us.
Once seen, the program is of no value. In fact it is the greatest obstacle. The ego's proper place is that of a tool not a tyrant.
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