The definition of ego we work with on the path is infinitely more practical when it comes to facing and eliminate the causes of our suffering and sleeping consciousness (including the many faces of fear, especially when it comes to comprehending how and why fear behaves as it does, and by extension, how and why it makes us think and behave as we do while under its influence). To comprehend the esoteric definition of ego—which is not arrived at via an intellectual process but one of conscious contemplation and hands-on experience—we begin as one might begin any puzzle: dump them on the table, turn them all upright, and identify the corners which will frame an emerging, detailed, complete picture. Join us to put together the puzzle of the "I" and comprehend what was once the ubiquitous and universally known nature of "the adversary."
