When you’re being fake, you’re faking being.
The ego does this all the time – it’s what it does. The ego-self cannot be real or do real. We can genuinely be our ego identity, but from that identity, we cannot be genuinely real.
In the normal course of events, people are being fake all the time, though they take this fakeness to be who they are. Being fake means pretending to be something we aren’t.
This is the exact state of affairs when it comes to ego identity, but the rub is – we actually believe we are this identity. We don’t realize the fakeness.
Being fake at the ego identity level means we are taking ourselves to be a historical self, a body, a mind, a set of images. It’s not that these things did not happen or are not real in a relative way – it’s a case of mistaken identity.
What we truly are is much deeper than this and this awareness has been lost to our immediate consciousness, so we live fake lives trying to get real – or not.
If we are trying to get real, to be genuine – it’ a conundrum – how can fake become real?
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