exactly. The ego serves a purpose. It has a lot to teach us about how we perceive ourselves, others and reality. Not only can you not "kill" it (people who clai

exactly. The ego serves a purpose. It has a lot to teach us about how we perceive ourselves, others and reality. Not only can you not "kill" it (people who claim to have "transcended" the ego still eat food :p ), but trying to will just result in the flip side of the same coin. The solution is integration, not destruction. As Buddhism says, the answer lies in "the middle way".