It’s a really wonderful thing to be more and more of a Complete and Total Nobody, because then Life has the space to really rush through us. That’s what it’s trying to do all the time anyway. There is really nothing at all wrong with an ego. The difficulty comes in when it’s the primary context of life. What a tension that is, and we often don’t even know that its an unnecessary tension until somehow, some way, we get a taste of life without it. And then we really see that it’s like an Ocean trying to move through a garden hose! What a tension! Poor garden hose! What unnecessary resilience! At the end of the day, that is what the state of ignorance amounts to- a fundamental tension that we’ve become terribly accustomed to, and so meditation is very simply a means of practicing fundamental relaxation. We practice relaxing throughout every day, and eventually find ourselves living as a great river pouring into a Boundless Sea. You are Life! You are That! How can you not be? That is the great realization at the heart of the Ascension practice.