 The dark night of the ego means the ego doesn't want to die. It wants you to drink, it wants you to smoke, it wants you to do all these things, you know? And even smoking ganja that you're doing, cannabis you call it, even that you slowly reduce it. First you smoke half of what you do and then you gradually reduce it because life is just that exciting without those things because those things they give you a feeling that life is more than what it is. But life is not more than what is in front of your nose. It's a very simple story actually.