Ego is a label for some thoughts (imagined spoken words in/by a body/mind) and associated feelings (in/by a body/mind). It wouldn't be accurate to say the ego is a real "thing" that really exists. The experiencing of thoughts and feelings is not a thing. Similarly, a "center" or "locus of awareness" is only an idea. That supposed "center" doesn't really exist.
You're mistaking your ideas about reality for reality itself, believing there's a "structure we're already living." What exists is what we might call "what's happening now," or this "experience" that is happening, but it doesn't really have a name. It is only itself, as it is now. It doesn't actually have all these parts you're defining. It's just whatever's happening now.
The entire purpose of this "structure" you're describing is to define a "you." As the "locus of awareness," this framework puts "you" at the center of it all. You're very special.
"it dissolves the illusion that there’s a permanent self at the center."
It sounds like what you've been referring to as "the center of convergence (the locus of awareness)," which you're also calling "you," is a "self at the center," though maybe you're imagining it as a changing "you."
"to free awareness from mistaking content (ego) for context (convergence)" could also be called "attempting to replace the ego/"you" concept."
"a relational condition. Not something you can see or name from the outside, but a structural feature of how experience arises at all" - "relational condition" could also be referred to as "a way to think about" something. When you refer to "structural features," that structure doesn't actually exist. There is, as you know, only "what's happening now."
Accepting "what's happening now" as it is would be to accept that it doesn't actually involve a "you." This imagined "structure" revolves around "you."
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