Classic ways that the Ego interferes with Present Moment are thoughts like "I am in the Present Moment", "This is my Present Moment", "I've got to the Present Moment", "I should appreciate this as I'm finally in the Present Moment" etc
How many trips to the spa or sauna, or moments with the candles or incense lit are hijacked by thoughts like this.
I'm realising that the actual Present Moment looks at the Ego like a stranger. It is not a case of the Ego moving into the Present Moment to have a look, but the Present Moment illuminating the Ego. But the Present Moment illuminates all things, the Ego is not special. But the Ego misunderstands that and think it is special in being illuminated. That is the essence of the Ego in fact.
Its an automatic thing almost for the events that occur to either be owned by the ego or not. When things happen they happen to "us", or "other people and things". We grasp them for our self, or we push them away onto other things, or we don't really even notice them. But this is all Ego misunderstanding the situation. These things happen all by themselves neither to us or anyone. They just happen. The here and there for it, comes purely from us trying to be the centre of the universe. In fact almost like Relativity theory and its constant speed of life distorting time and space relative to the frame of reference, the Egos need to be the centre means everything else must be distorted.
Present Moment is not about distorting anything. It is how things just are. Meditation and firmly letting the Present Moment be as it is, is the actually the act of undoing the Ego's insistence of being at the centre.
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