Osho on ego

Jun 14 evening

Osho - autobiography
The phenomenon of the ego, of the self, is not a thing - it is a process. 

It is like pedaling a bicycle: if u pedal it goes on and on; if u don't pedal it stops. It may go on a little because of the momentum, but the moment u stop pedaling, in fact, the bicycle starts stopping. It has no more energy, no more power to go anywhere. It is going to collapse.

The ego exists because we go on pedaling desire, because we go on striving to get something, because we go on jumping ahead of ourselves.  

That is the very phenomenon the ego - the jump ahead of urself, the jump into future, the jump into unknown. The jump into non existential creates the ego. It is like a mirage, it consist only of desires, only of thirst and nothing else.