How to Vaporize Your Ego and Touch the Sublime

 

I saw a line the other day that stopped me cold:“Have solidified ego – crush it
If you thick ego – dilute it
If you have powdered or diluted ego – vaporize it
Become sublime – by vanish the ego within – and reach the inner recesses of your spirit!”
It’s raw, almost brutal, and yet it points straight at the most delicate truth most of us spend a lifetime avoiding: the “I” we defend so fiercely is the very thing that keeps us small.We all know the ego when it’s loud. It’s the armor we polish, the story we rehearse, the resume we carry in our head. It screams when criticized, puffs up when praised, and quietly calculates how everything affects “me.” But the ego is sneaky; it doesn’t always roar. Sometimes it whispers, sometimes it hides behind spirituality itself (“Look how humble I am now”).So let’s treat it like any other substance that blocks the light, and dissolve it phase by phase.Phase 1 – Solidified Ego: Crush ItThis is the granite version. You are right, they are wrong, and you will die on that hill. You collect evidence, nurse grudges, replay old victories. Your identity is fused with your opinions, your job title, your trauma, your politics.Tool of choice: merciless honesty + public humiliation (voluntary kind).

• Say the thing you’re most afraid to admit out loud.
• Ask for feedback on your worst traits and don’t defend.
• Watch your life story fall apart when someone you respect sees through it.

The blow has to be strong enough to crack the rock. Ego doesn’t yield to gentle reasoning; it laughs at it. Only pain or radical perspective shifts can fracture something this dense.Phase 2 – Thick Ego: Dilute ItNow the chunks are broken, but there’s still a viscous sludge. You know you’re not always right, but you still want credit. You practice humility but quietly keep score. You meditate, yet the meditation is another feather in your spiritual cap.Tool of choice: laughter, service, and ordinary life.

• Laugh at yourself daily – out loud, with friends who won’t let you off the hook.
• Do jobs that give you no status: clean toilets, serve strangers, lose anonymously.
• Surround yourself with people who are better than you at everything you value.

Dilution happens when the ego stops being the center of gravity. You add enough water (humility, devotion, play) until the mixture is thin and workable.Phase 3 – Powdered or Diluted Ego: Vaporize ItThis is the subtlest and most dangerous stage. The ego is no longer a monster; it’s a ghost. You feel spacious most of the time. Thoughts still arise saying “I am aware,” “I am nothing,” “I am everything,” but there’s a faint perfume of selfing left.Tool of choice: surrender so complete it feels like dying.

• Sit until the watcher dissolves.
• Love until the lover disappears.
• Inquire until the inquirer has no ground to stand on.

One breath of true not-knowing, one moment of seeing with no seer, and the finest dust turns to vapor. Nothing is added, nothing is taken away. What remains isn’t an improved ego – it’s the wide-open sky it was always pretending to own.The SublimeWhen the last trace evaporates, you don’t become a better person. You stop being a person in the old way. There’s just seeing, hearing, tasting – life living itself without a middleman. Joy without reason, compassion without effort, clarity without a clairvoyant.The world doesn’t change; the filter disappears. And in that unfiltered immediacy, everything is radiant.So don’t aim for a quieter ego. Don’t settle for a transparent one.
Crush, dilute, vaporize.Until there’s no one left to claim the sublime –
and the sublime is all there is.