The nonexistence of a solid, ongoing self is known as “egolessness.” To return to the grain-of-sand analogy, if we don’t overcrowd or obstruct anything with a big sense of “me,” we enjoy a sense of spaciousness. There’s a feeling of tremendous room, a feeling of infinite possibilities. The less ego one has, the more one can relax and appreciate the world and other beings. It’s like what the singer-songwriter Leonard Cohen said after many years of Zen meditation. After all that practice, he got bored to death with all his ego dramas and they started to fall away. Then he found that “the less there was of me, the happier I got.”
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