This sums up the way I see the Ego differently from the way most people look at it.

The Ego wasn’t injected into the world or learned from the world.

The Ego is the conflict with the force of life that caused the creation of this world. The basis of the Ego, and the world, is the exploration of the idea of independence, self-interest and isolation.

Gluttony, for example, is the desire to eat excessively because of the Egoic idea of scarcity and self-interest. It’s due to the fear that if you don’t grab it now, it won’t be there tomorrow.

What I still don’t get is why Ego exists. Why place a purely negative force in a world. Most (if not all) other negative motivations are extremes of positves – e.g. gluttony is an extreme of a desire to eat. I would say that we can see negative behaviours as extremes of positve ones but not purely negative in their own right.

If Ego is purely negative – it would seem to be unique?

Or if it is the extreme of a ‘positive’ – what ‘positive’?