I think our ego is only a experience that the real “us” is passing through, but our ego is not us. The real us is our consciousness, and it is like if that consciousness is watching a tv video which is our ego.


I think like because the ego is like a program that we must follow. We usually think we are that program and those programmed desires and wishes we have are actually us who are having by pure free will, but I think its not completely like this. We have these desires and wishes because our hormones says that we must have then.


A person who gets easily angered is a person who has a lot of activity going on in their amigdalae, a stressed person is a person that has low levels of serotonin, etc. Those persons are not angered or stressed, but their consciousness is watching a video where it is subjected to those experiences, when we watch that video we identify ourselves with the role of the main character so well that we forget that we are not that character


When we watch a movie we have all the experiences that the character in the video have, it is not different than our life. If you think it is different because we can´t act and control the actions in a movie, then think about video games or virtual reality simulators. Why do we have to identify ourselves with this character but not the one of a movie or game ? 


The answer does not matter, I only wanted to show that our lives are like a movie that our consciousness is watching and thinking it is the character in there.


If this is true. We don´t have to suffer because it is the character who suffers not the consciousness.