Howzabout try a different approach:
There is no ego. There is no you to thwart an ego. There is no ego to prefer being an ego.
There are sensations, sensations of the head, sensations of the eyes, sensations of the nose, sensations of the neck, sensations of the chest: these arise and vanish. They are transient, ephemeral, totally and utterly impermanent in ways that seem both digital and analog at once, causal, yet created from nothing, by nothing, and vanish to nothing.
There are mental sensations: sensations of effort, sensations of analysis, sensations that make up the mental aspects of emotions, sensations that seem to be controlling attention, sensations that seem to be preferring this or that, sensations that make up moods, sensations that seem to do all sorts of things, sensations that seem to observe, sensations that seem to remember: all are totally transient, ephemeral, totally and utterly impermanent in both ways, causal, natural, impersonal.
Notice this quality of sensations again and again, notice the lack of control, notice that they are all over there, notice how slippery they are, how they shift and flux, and keep noticing this, as it leads to comprehension, and when comprehension is sufficient, something suddenly flips over.
Do you know the image of the old/young woman, where the image is exactly the same, and looking at it one way you see one thing, and then looking at it just slightly differently, with different assumptions, and you see something totally different you didn't see before: it is just like that.
