Through Zen practice, we purify our minds of the slag and dross of egotism. The ego is a delusion covering our true nature. The goal of practice is not to reform the ego, but to realize our true self.
There was a king's son, who, being expelled in
infancy from his native city, was brought up by a forester, and, growing up to
maturity in that state, imagined himself to belong to the barbarous race with
which he lived. One of his father's ministers having discovered him, revealed
to him what he was, and the misconception of his character was removed, and he
knew himself to be a prince. —Quoted by Henry David Thoreau in Walden
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