Let us say it
in different words. You can make many concentric, circles on one center, many circles. You can throw a pebble in a silent lake: one center arises from the
fall of the pebble and then many concentric circles arise and they go on spreading to the
farthest shore -- millions of concentric circles, but they all have one center.
Each can claim this center as his own. And in a way it is
his center, but it is not only his.
The ego arises with the claim, "The center is mine,
separate. It is not your center, it is my center; it is me."
The idea of a separate center is the root of the ego. |