e-motion

Meditation can all but erase emotion.

It will refine you, and make your interior real instead a plastic construct

Meditation can not be forced

A few ways to promote meditation,

take a holiday or a respite, and lie on the beach, or grassy riverbanks, or in reclining folding chairs

enjoy a creamy lassi, smoothie, or cultured milk, preferably from yak, sheep, camel, or llama, and the like, then with fullish stomach rest on a large cushion/mattress or a comfy lounge and daydream

or if able take a cool swim, followed by a sauna/sweat lodge or similar, even thai/swiss massage, then either clean the skin with a tepid dip, finishing massage with cool calming botanicals, or simply dry oneself off and dust in a light and refreshing talcum powder(or similar), then partake in a light and delicious snack, or light wholesome soup with noodles and preserved fruit or lightly pickled veg, anything really that is light, wholesome and good for the body, add some not too hot tea, of course, or a brandy lime and soda, if so inclined, etc....then take a walk through a natural setting, or just sit and read or listen to cymbols and stringed instruments.

or take a long bushwalk then sit with bare feet on an outcrop that looks out on an expanse of landscape or beach/sea

or go for a sail

or make bread, potter in a garden, or pick wildflowers, or take your baby for a walk in a pram along an esplanade or along pleasant streets, but be sure that your baby is comfortably wrapped and make sure you are wearing comfortable footwear

why do you think you need to erase the ego?

we need the ego

it comes down to a matter of popular dialogue,

From AZIZ KRISTOF, a non-traditional Advaita-Zen Master:

'Enlightenment does not annihilate the ego.  Why would someone want to annihilate something so useful and extraordinary?  It has not been by chance that we have mentioned many times how important the mind and ego are as the creative force of our intelligence.  We need to dissolve this dangerous spiritual conditioning that has taken deep root in our habitual way of thinking.  Irresponsible psychological language has caused a lot of harm to those on the Path.  The ego concept needs to be defined in a way that relates to our everyday experience, and to all those complicated processes in meditation and on the spiritual Path.

In the case of people without insight into the nature of consciousness, the mental activity is in the center of consciousness.  Every thought creates a new center, a new identification which is the ego -- there is nothing else there.  We cannot talk about “one” ego but rather about a flow of conscious or semi-conscious events, being capable of operating in a relatively integrated way.  This is the function of the ego.

When Enlightenment takes place, the Presence becomes the center, and there is the feeling that all the thoughts are only witnessed objects-events on the periphery of consciousness; they are guests coming and going, having nothing to do with the stillness of our being.  For that reason, it is easy to conclude that there is only Witnessing, and the rest is irrelevant, impersonal and objective.  But this popular conclusion is one-dimensional and is not able to grasp the dynamics of human consciousness.  Thoughts are being witnessed and observed.  The center is empty and uninvolved.  Is that all?  Not fully.  Although the thoughts are witnessed, the intelligence which is using them represents also a parallel center of relative consciousness - it is also the “Me.”

We can speak about two centers within us, as manifested beings: one is the Witnessing Consciousness -- a constant flow of presence, and the second is the moving self-conscious center of our personality.  When we see this clearly, there is no doubt that the thoughts, which are being witnessed, are simultaneously an indivisible part of Me, and it is Me who is thinking them!  In the case of an Enlightened being, although thoughts have a different quality, still they remain as a function of consciousness and as a functional self-relating center, which we interpret as “me.”  The absolute Me and the relative me are one.  Being and self-conscious expression are one.

The ego concept refers not only to the gross level of thinking or to the gross will.  We have  already spoken about the fact that to divide our consciousness into thinking and not-thinking is far too simplistic.  Consciousness is extraordinarily rich.  There is intuitive knowing, feeling, gentle checking and being attentive to what is happening in our consciousness and surroundings.  This movement of intelligence has a quality of self-referral which is also what we call  -- the ego. The personality without Presence is ignorance of course, but Presence without the personality is like a tree without fruit, the sun without rays or a flower without fragrance.  They are one organic whole.  When we fully understand that ego is “good,” the whole issue of eliminating it drops off by itself.  But this is not yet the end.  We are coming now to the next complicated problem: what kind of ego should we have?'

egolessness, death of the ego, etc gets misinterpreted

western thinking and expectations have fallen short of eastern attempts to relay concepts

popular writers have added to the confusion

people doggedly defend popular opinion and trends