The Illusion of the Ego

We were taught in the whole process of doing spontaneous things to order. We start using muscular strains around our eyes, ears, jaws, hands. And then when we try to control our emotions, we hold our breath or tighten our rectal muscles. This chronic tension is the root of what we call the feeling of the ego. So that we get the ego as the marriage of an illusion to a futility.