IDENTITY CONVERSATIONS AND THE IDENTITY OF NO IDENTITY
Everyone feels fear. Being afraid is a choice. Everyone feels closed off. Being closed off is a choice. Everyone feels uncomfortable. Being uncomfortable is a choice. Everyone feels anxiety. Being anxious is a choice. Everyone feels sad. Being sad is a choice. You are not your thoughts, your feelings, your body sensations, your points of view, your personality, your body, your attitudes, or your opinions. You’re not even your thoughts about your thoughts and your opinions about your opinions. Who you are is that entity that can notice all of that. The SELF. And it’s our choice who We (as Self not the automatic machinery) choose to be. That’s our creation in each moment regardless of circumstances.
If while you are reading this you have some kind of thought like “I disagree, I’m an anxious person and that’s who I am” or something of that nature. That’s an amazing opportunity of the first place to start looking (if you’re willing). Not being some kind of “fixed” being is a threat to the identity and can literally kill it off. Noticing the mind trying to disagree or invalidate this is your minds way of trying to keep you alive. However that mechanism isn’t keeping you alive at all as you are not your identity. The very process of keeping your identity alive is actually having you stay dead. Not dead physically. Dead like being. And it keeps the automatic program rooted in survival and based in the past continuing.
Many people go to their death bed with their actions rooted from this space. The noticing where the mind starts to invalidate, disagree, etc is the access to freedom from all of that.
And here’s the “Caveat Emptor”. That’s a never ending game. If you’re reading this and someone who “already knows this” or “you’re already enlightened”….the moment you start operating from that space, that can then easily become the new identity which destroys the power of all of this.
Yesterday’s insight can easily become tomorrow’s belief system and make you fall right back to sleep.
