Identities
In the beginning when as a kid we start developing or being aware of our consciousness we know very little of ourselves. Babies cry, laugh and express through languageless, wordless communication with mothers. Intuition ran deep and natural as in mother and baby bonding.
When asked what is selfless love, one sage replies “Simply look at how a mother looks at her child – that is selfless love”. The mom who dies without qualms for her children and protect them without a thought about her own life. She could care less for herself if her kids were meant with danger.
So the mom identifies with her child. That which you love thoroughly and are thoroughly immersed with is your identity/ies. The strong the attachment, the greater the pain. The whole universe expresses it self through duality, pain and pleasure, useful and not useful, male and female …etc. However these multifarious expression of existence are part of the whole non-duality. One big background of changelessness from which the principle of pure potentiality exists.
Have I lost you? Take a thought for example, a pleasant memory. Spend some time dwelling on it and carry on dwelling and harping on it and it won’t be long before it turns to attachment and worry. There can exist no pleasure without pain. Find that middle, equilibrium between pain and pleasure and you will see calm and peacefulness. Enter meditation from there. Enter meditation without any thoughts, without any prejudices, ideas, beliefs, pre-conception, inner-dialogs … without the mind. Now is the present moment for pure potentiality, pure eternity in infinite possibilities.
Mind attaches. Heart releases. The mind creates the abyss and the heart crosses it. Either there are no miracles or everything is a miracle. Quality and principles from when do they come? Define them and you will see that there are no beginning or end in these phenomenon. Within the whole, things are perceived as cause and effect. However they are only in the scenery or background. The all inclusive universe expresses in infinite ways and even more so in the unknowable.
Moods define identities. Careers define identities. Status define identities. Deconstruct them all, take identities off and what have you? I am not my body. I am not my identity. I am not my ego. I am not my status or career in life. If you go on negating who you are then it would be easier to see you really are. First go through the endless list of who you are not and you will be amazed how much peace and calm you will gain in dropping all your judgements.
If you treat your employees like bags of dirt then you are in for some personal purification. Suffer the endless loop of trauma until you learn from humility and mistakes and start interiorising your pride and harmfulness. Be useful to yourself first. Don’t attach to any identities self made. Simple evolve moment to moment and be mindful of yourself, your feelings and others. Bringing awareness and include all in your consciousness.
Strip off the masks of identities and enjoy life fully in the here and now – smile, laugh, work, let inspiration and enthusiasm overflows from within you.
