By TCD TEAM.
All life manifestation has an instinct of self preservation and an instinct of self procreation. Both work together without antagonism in the natural state. In humans, the conceptual sense of self, the ego, hijacks these instincts for its own preservation and perpetuation.
The human body, just like that of any other animal, is equipped with natural instinctual defense mechanisms that come into effect in face of danger.
What happens when you are about to step on a snake? Do you “think” what to do? What about when you hear gunshots? “You” don’t tell the body how to respond to these threats. It has its own evolutionary wisdom which tells it what to do.
What of when you are insulted? Which part of the body feels insulted? Which part of the body moves to protect itself? So what are you protecting when you get into a fight with the person who has insulted you? You are protecting your false sense of self, the ego self.
If someone insults you while you are deeply asleep, how will you react? Or if they insult you in a language you don’t understand?
Can you see the real implication of “knowing good and evil”? Knowledge of good and evil comes with the ego self. They arise mutually. A newborn isn’t affected by an insult because it has no self because it has no knowledge of good and evil.
So there is the instinctual body defense system and ego self defense system. The ego hijacks the body’s natural instincts and corrupts them to its own advantage. So no ego, no self defense systems are needed. The body’s natural instincts are enough.
Are you able to get rid of the ego self and remain only with the body? Thats the only way to go beyond all the troubles of defending a phantom self that doesn’t exist!