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Every evaluating is an effect of ego, even the evaluating of ego itself.
The statement: the waking life is as real as dreamworlds is informative, as well as: ego is as real as dreamworlds.
Statements: the walking life is merely as real as dreamworlds, ego is merely as real as dreamworlds, are evaluative.
We should try to get rid of ego or shrink it, is a commandment stemming from ego.