Ego as Virus

A virus is an entity that has no life-sustaining capabilities of it's own. In order for a virus to live, it needs to hijack the life-system of a preexisting organism.

Each cell has genetic locks on its surface. The virus has a key on its surface. If the virus's key is similar enough to the original key to fit inside the lock, the lock can be operated. The cell opens up and allows whatever was operating the lock inside. Once inside, the virus takes control of the natural programming of the cell, utilizing it for it's own purpose. It has only one purpose: replication. The virus will produce copies of itself over and over, disrupting the cell's natural programming, causing disease and eventually death. The viruses then leave the host in search of another in order to repeat the process.

Thoughts do not exist of their own accord. The thought “tree” cannot exist without a thinker that gives it life.

One hundred years ago the average human had approximately 5000 thoughts per day. Today, the average human has approximately 50,000 thoughts per day.

If You watch Your own mind and try to simply not think, You will notice, unless You have undergone training in the form of meditation, that You will be unable to stop thoughts from being produced, for even mere seconds.

If we take an objective view of the human species, we will come to the conclusion that our natural “programming” is being disrupted:

• The obesity epidemic.
• Being the direct and indirect cause of the extinction of thousands of other species.
• War.
• Murder.
• Suicide.

Are any of these phenomena found elsewhere in nature?

What is it that makes humans distinct from everything else in nature?

Human consciousness has been infected with the thought virus. One could even say that human consciousness is the virus. If You are finding this hard to believe, remember that a host that is infected with a virus has already accepted it as a part of itself. Virus is the great deceiver.

If the purpose of a virus is to simply replicate, and thought is a virus that has infected consciousness, then left unchecked, thought will spread rampantly throughout that consciousness.

Once again, watch Your mind for just a few minutes. Simply do not think...

Does it seem natural that You are unable to stop thinking? Do thoughts seem to just pop in at random, with very little or no congruency, order, or purpose? When You watch Your actions during a normal day, does it seem as though the mind is continually searching for something to keep it occupied – to keep the thought process going? Is there something unsettling about this?

Observe: Is there the constant need to occupy the mind?

Enquire: Why is there this need? What purpose does it serve?

How many of our actions are a result of trying to keep the mind occupied; to engage in the thinking process? How much of what we create is designed to engage the mind; to make that engagement more accessible, and more effective?

The information age. Always more accessible and always faster.

Honest, objective investigation of Your own actions and the actions of those around You will reveal the degree to which the infection has taken hold.

The species is very, very sick. And we don't even notice.

Transcendence of mind is the antidote.

However, the antidote is being administered via the same pathway that the virus was introduced. The virus, not wanting to die, will do everything in it's power to keep the thought process operating, replicating. There will be a strong push to either reject what is being said or to debate what is being said.

If one rejects what is being said, then all will continue as it has been – the virus will continue replicating unchecked, the rate progressively increasing.

If one debates what is being said, the thought process will continue, only with a “more important” purpose. 

However, the virus cares not what is being thought; as long as the thought process is in operation, thoughts are being replicated and the virus stays alive. So there is essentially no difference between “spiritual” thoughts and every other type of thought process. Whether important or mundane, good or bad, positive or negative, engagement in the thought process, any thinking, is the virus manipulating Your life energy for it's own replication.

If You are finding this hard to believe, remember that a host that is infected with a virus has already accepted it as a part of itself.

Do not let the virus convince You to disregard this information. Of course the virus doesn't want to die, but its death is Your Liberation. If problems/discontentment exist in Your Life, then the cause of those problems/discontentment and the resulting antidote must also exist.

Transcendence of mind is the antidote.

Investigate the thought-free state and come to see the Truth of Your own accord; from Your own experience.