In my opinion, if we are to truly find bliss within our Consciousness, we must remove our ego from the equation.  Any attachment, regardless of how small, to our ego can be detrimental to the self

I think here the question of language, spoken and unspoken as it concerns the experience of Consciousness arises to which the ego appears to play a necessary role. When trying to make something conscious and communicate that to others or ourselves, the I immerges. It is  extremely difficult to reference a experience of consciousness without pronouns, without the I.

I would argue that the ‘ego’ plays the necessary role acting as the channel between the unconscious becoming conscious.  The error is the assumption that the I is in the drivers seat. The task then is not to ‘remove the ego’ but detach from it, and assign it its proper place. You are not your ego, you have a ego that plays a important role in experience and consciousness.

I personally find this perspective more useful as attempting to remove the ego at best ended up in science at worst ended up a exercise of frustration and or disengagement from Life.

The still point of awareness sees the ego, detached, and dances.

There is a Buddhist story of the beginning where a it becomes aware of itself as the void. When It became aware of itself its first thought was it could be ended by another, but realizing it was alone had nothing to fear.  This awareness of aloneness led to the desire not to be alone and so the world was created. No longer alone no longer safe???

The tension of opposites creating consciousness, (the knowledge of the tree of good and evil – not the same thing as the knowledge of what is good and evil) coming at a price that as it creates it undoes itself….