The ego as self

The kind of order that the ego tries to impose is more a straight-jacket than a guide. Order implies timing and that is the key.

Knowing that sentient, intelligent beings are able to equilibrate space and time implies an ability to work within those confines to generate the required movement and extract the necessary result from the energy to be used. Our "disorders" are related to the interference with our natural enegy flow by those retardatory aspects of our existence.
They are the clues.

Suffering is, for the most part, just the restraint that the ego's straight-jacket places on our movement. The ego, once made transparent, is relegated to performing it's required tasks...which it does exceedingly well. It is the presence of all of the infirmities and occlusions that perturb it's lenticular clarity that cause the problems. Those "effects" are also the indications of where the faults lie and what actions are required to fix them.