The Ego on a String and the Player Behind it All
Audio Book read by Tazo
The One Voice
Forum and Discussion - Two weeks and Plenty of Time to listen multiple times.
Every teaching in the world says kill the ego.
This one hands it the lyre.
But life is full of strings. Which one do you play?
Soul Frequencies · Book One of Three
Have you heard of Ego Yoga?
Some strings move you — the expectations, the inherited self, the ego dangled like a puppet above a stage you never chose. One string, though, you can pick up yourself.
The ego is not the enemy. It is the player — the one part of you that can lift an instrument and sound a single honest note into the world: I am here. The soul is the lyre. The hand is the mechanism. And behind all of it stands the one who chooses which way.
The Ego on a String is not another book about silencing yourself. It is an invitation to find the hand that moves you — and then the one who watches the hand. This is self-inquiry in the oldest sense: who am I, asked not as a belief to adopt but as a skill you can practice and check. It promises a skill, not a secret — the musician who hears the score before a note is sounded, the listener at the waterfall who stops hearing noise and begins to hear the water strike each separate stone. You have spent your life sounding to something out there; here, at last, you learn to listen for the answer.
Written by a flutist who spent lives beside a desert river, it moves easily between the language of quantum fields and strings, the contemplative Christian path of personal growth, and the old knowledge of the living world — toward one aim: awakening the real self beyond the veil. It gives you a place to stand while anger and anxiety move through, and a way past what's expected of you, into what is actually yours.
You will not be handed a secret. You will be handed an instrument, and taught to play.
The throat asks. The foot waits. Come and stand.
- Teacher: Friend Tazo
