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Egocide

Your True Prison

Oct 23, 2023

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Egocide

The brain is not
your prison
Nor your skull
its walls —
these are
Ego walls

Opinions and beliefs
the bricks
Hungers and desires
the mortar

It feeds on thought
It drinks conviction
It breathes the very
need to be

Dead set on survival
at any cost
It will fight you
all the way

Deprive it of thought
even for a moment
and it will buck
and squirm

Discern and uproot
its many convictions
and watch it desiccate

Follow the ego-less air
at your nostrils
as it begins to fade

Be but air —
no thought
no dream
no Me
and the Ego
will starve
to death

© Wolfstuff

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Wolfstuff
Wolfstuff

Written by Wolfstuff

Raised by trolls in northern Sweden, now settled on the California coast a stone’s throw south of the Oregon border. Here I meditate and write.