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The Ego is the way the individual will react to specific or general circumstance, as some are smart, charming, brave, strong, vocal, humorous and some are none of these things.
Attachment is when one believes and possesses the conviction that the personality and Ego is singular, individual, mundane, ultimately alone, finite, definitive, particular and isolated in space and time. The individual believes itself to possess consequence equivalent to material, intellectual or emotional possessions and achievements, may have vague religious ideas of transcendent existence after death, but may not be completely convinced. The attached state is a state of limitation and confinement of limited consequence and limited possibilities. This limited state of mind is called the
Mundane Consciousness.
A state of Detachment is when the 'thinking I', or what
may be called the
Memory Self, becomes unattached from its singular perspective, of the mundane physicality of the human body, Ego and personality. The individual may realize that the 'thinking I' is more or less universal. That this 'I', could be anyone and could think, act and do as others, if they were in the same or similar situation and circumstance, of birth, socialization or acculturation, or possessed the same values and objectives. In this way the individual becomes Compassionate, better able to identify with the circumstance, feelings, values or motives of others.
A method for the encouragement of transcending the 'singular I' is the playing of roles of other personality characters and types, as adopting the conditions,
Consequence and objectives of others. The object is the realization that the essential 'thinking I' is not singular and perhaps not mundane, but may be capable of assuming anyone else's body, if such a thing were possible, or of being anyone.
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