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should you commit ego death?

Sisyphus 55 | September 19, 2025



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  2. @themcgufin4954

    September 19, 2025 at 2:29 pm

    In my loneliness of moments, on a quiet Christmas eve, I realized that I wish everyone would truly hate me, for then there would be no pain, nor suffering tied to my loss, death, or disappearance. I long to escape—to vanish into solitude where I could face my end without the burdens of reality, the people around me, or the resentment they spark within.

    But can I ever truly be alone when I carry the weight of myself—the greatest burden of all? Would I really escape guilt and sorrow if everyone came to hate me? Could I ever be free of regret and envy, having watched others find happiness and knowing that, in some other reality, I too might have experienced joy if things had been different?

    The only true liberation lies in the death of the self. To no longer be consumed by others’ happiness, unfazed by your failures and mistakes, and unburdened by the consequences of your actions or irreversible damage of your inaction. To be free of the self is to see existence for its absurdity, accepting that death is neither a beginning nor an end. It is simply a process that reveals the insignificance of everything that came before it and the negligibility of everything that could have been.

    This, perhaps, is the purest form of freedom: the embrace of death and suicide as a release from the disposable banality of past, present, and future.

    I wish I could believe in these sayings, for I long for freedom from pain, yet remain bound to life by love and unfulfilled aspirations.

    I feel trapped between these two forces—the people I love, the dreams I pursue, and the desperate attempt to escape life and its weight. Perhaps this alone is proof that, even in the face of difficulty, there is meaning I still find in life, however faint it may seem at times.

  4. @peeper2070

    September 19, 2025 at 2:29 pm

    I miss being scared, anxious, upset, angry. Before we broke up, I kept telling my ex how I can’t remember the last time I was angry at anything (e.g I used to be passionate during football matches etc). I feel nothing, and before we parted ways I boasted about how my depression was my super power. I don’t feel like a robot, or trapped, or like I’m watching a TV show. I feel like everything is a dream.

  9. @nameless-yd6ko

    September 19, 2025 at 2:29 pm

    Ego is THOUGHT (duality/illusion).
    We all perceive THOUGHT, illusion.
    The 'lucid' recognize the illusions of the ego, and do not identify with the offered illusory identity.
    The deluded believe those illusions.

    You cannot 'kill' the ego, that is nonsense. It's 'before you' to be perceived, not 'in you' to be manipulated.
    There are moments when THOUGHT is NOT perceived, moments of Mr. Magoo-like flashes of lucidity/sanity.
    "Zen is anything done thoughtlessly!" – Bodhidharma

  10. @LuuzbelitoPirogovsky

    September 19, 2025 at 2:29 pm

    As someone who has suffered with mental illness and depression the majority of my adult life. I just tried DMT for the first time, I felt as if I was in the center of the universe, what an awesome experience.

  12. @liyuhh7144

    September 19, 2025 at 2:29 pm

    people in the comments have been through a lot. my advice would be to just be yourself and live the way u wish to live. grass is not greener on the other side. yours is the most beautiful one.

  13. @cyndasqill

    September 19, 2025 at 2:29 pm

    I experienced an ego death sometime between being a child and a young adult. To the extent that I genuinely don’t remember most of my life and what I do remember is like peeking at it through a hazy fog. Those memories are extremely distant and I rarely remember anything in great detail. Sometimes I remember things just for them to vanish again or I’ll be with somebody. I’ve known my whole life or a friend I’ve had for 10 or more years and they’ll be like hey you remember when we did blank blank or do you remember such event and I genuinely cannot recall. It’s like my brain has an automatic deletion feature where if information doesn’t become commonly thought of or even applicable to my current circumstances, it just goes away. Needless to say I have experience intense psychological distress, and I’ve had an ADHD diagnosis since I was four years old, so I’m sure those factors play a large hand in this weird experience of mine but at the same time I feel like my ego death experience is holistically unique.

  18. @ggat283

    September 19, 2025 at 2:29 pm

    i’m on acid right now, and i just wish this ego death would last when i come down. it just always builds back up and i don’t even know what to do about it? how to combat it? it’s just the “walls” so to speak. i don’t want to die but damn i wish i could just like experience the bliss, no ego, no jealousy, no rage, no trauma

  19. @harrublaku8963

    September 19, 2025 at 2:29 pm

    I recently had a trip where I had complete ego death. I naturally view my existence & the world as meaningless, and when i had ego death and wasn't connected to the self I genuinely wanted to stop existing.

    A few hours after I had a kind of clarity on my life that I've never had before though – and its made me want to xhange direction in life.

    A very interesting experience to say the least

  20. @tncrizzy4048

    September 19, 2025 at 2:29 pm

    Ive always told myself, if you don't feel any purpose but have life figured out somewhat, then use that to change peoples lives. Changing peoples lives are the biggest way to connect with yourself and humanity if you really care

  23. @markvincentordiz

    September 19, 2025 at 2:29 pm

    Free will is a different concept. You said, that you are not excused to plead not guilty to your past mistakes because there is a self. There is a self as an arbitrary language represented by the experience of consciousness but that doesn't account for free will.

  30. @JW-cvnt

    September 19, 2025 at 2:29 pm

    i don’t wanna sound like a know it all, but i think i’ve experienced this before?? everything said in the video are things that i’ve learned to accept and/or have known so like?? when did my ego death happen?? wouldn’t i remember it?? maybe i haven’t because i also don’t feel the dread, i like that we have such limited time. i like what my ego does and how it shapes the world i see, because i am somewhat aware that my view of things ain’t shit to nobody else, not even me. if i haven’t had an ego death tho, idk if i want to. i don’t think i…need it?? that sounds kind of uppity but idk, i genuinely feel as though i’m practicing an ego death in my day to day, anyone else??

  31. @noob19087

    September 19, 2025 at 2:29 pm

    I disagree. Life without the self is the only way I want to live. Yes, loss of the self means there's no purpose. But so what? Why does there need to be? I feel much more alive in that realization than in an escape to the confines of the ego.

  32. @Dremarchand

    September 19, 2025 at 2:29 pm

    This makes no sense. I started 21 years ago on the process to achieve ego death (Nirvana, Heaven, AAs Rocketed to the 4th dimension). It’s a lifetime process. It is the most obvious path towards being a truly loving person to me. The quote was pure gold about “a flame that enlightens its surroundings and thereby itself”

    That’s literally what Jesus was talking about. That’s what Buddha found. It’s pure acceptance. Pure acceptance cannot be attained while identifying with your ego. It needs crushed.

    How tf is anyone suffering from a self disorder? I understand and believe you’re suffering, but to me your symptoms appear desirable. There is no free will, there is no separation, there is only one thing. So there can be no self. It’s a straight up illusion.

    Teach me how to suffer like you

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