The ego (the sense of independent self) appears to be the root cause of suffering in this life. The idea that one is at all separate from what they experience is an illusion. One is constantly experiencing, and being experienced, by the experience. This is all inclusive of everything within the experience.
You are me and I you
You are also a condition or in a state of existence created entirely from the experience. You are really just me, and I you being reflected back (as different conditioned states of being). If you take away all that you perceive to be separate from you, then what you consider yourself would not even exist.
Conditioning of the Ego – Where Society gets it wrong
The greatest abuse within human civilization are societal practices that try to further condition the ego… reinforcing this false belief in separateness for any hierarchical purpose. The only real separation is this illusive perspective, resulting in material senses that can make you feel separated.
The full truth might be found in understanding the importance of everything within the overall experience. In knowing that you are not separate from anything that your senses provide. Rather, your senses are experiencing extremes within a spectrum of all perspectives.
It is through this process of curiously understanding all perspectives, (tuning in with the third eye) that I believe global civilized collaboration and “real” evolutionary human progress will eventually become revealed or discovered.