My friend is a psychology student but I still don’t get it after they explain it to me.
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Your ego is the part of your mind that sees a clear distinction between yourself and the rest of the world. It focuses on the things you want to do in the world, and the great successes you achieve and the great injustices that others cause to you. It can be a very useful way to look at the world if you want to achieve specific goals.
Ego death is when this view of yourself as distinct from the broader world dies, and it doesn’t necessarily have to do with drugs. It can just mean that you, through inclination and practice, focus on the interconnections between all beings. You stop having a “main character” perspective: bad things that happen aren’t great injustices, they’re just things that happen. Joys for others are joys for you as well. You feel unthreatened by bad outcomes at work or school, because you don’t have a fragile identify that is dependent on external validation or success.
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