The part that I found particularly interesting was William's description of our ego as the vehicle that we use to navigate the world and through which we experience ourselves as separate.
According to my understanding, my conflicts with other people are the result of our egos clashing with each other.
Since William had used the word "vehicle" to represent the ego, the image of bumper cars sprang into my mind to represent the crashing "vehicles," and I chuckled. It's interesting how fairy tales, nursery rhymes, children's games and amusement park rides often reveal truths about life.
This motivated me to do a Google search on "bumper cars." That led me to a website entitled Amusement Park Physics. It stated, amongst other things:
Newton's third law of motion comes into play on the bumper cars. This law, the law of interaction, says that if one body exerts a force on a second body, the second body exerts a force equal in magnitude and opposite in direction on the first body. It's the law of action-reaction, and it helps to explain why you feel a jolt when you collide with another bumper car.
That gave me a further chuckle. I thought, tongue-in-cheek, "You see, there's scientific proof of the workings of the ego!"
Of course, a great deal of spiritual teaching is about disengaging your inner bumper car so that, when someone else collides with you, you don't exert an equal and opposite force on him or her.
But I digress. William's piece contains more wisdom than the vehicle metaphor so, if you feel moved, please feel free to read the original post.
If you visit William's website, you'll probably notice that, unlike me, he is not into Non-Duality. Yet there are overlaps between his philosophy and mine. I certainly do find it worthwhile to visit his blog from time to time and check out what he's saying.
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