Identification

  Why does one identify oneself with others, with a group, with a country, why do you call yourself a Christian or a Buddhist, or is it identification that on seeks in oneself with a group.  

The identification with a group puts an end to all creative understanding of the self and one becomes only a tool in the hands of its leadership.  

In identification there is resistance and is only a form of love that looks for self-protective resistance. Love is vulnerable, pliable, and receptive; it is the highest form of sensitivity, and identification makes for insensitivities. Identification and love do not go together, for the one destroys the other.

Identification is essentially a thought process by which the mind safeguards and expands itself; and in becoming something it must resist and defend, it must own and discard. In this process of becoming, the mind or the self grows tougher and more capable.

The very act of identification puts an end to inquiries, to discoveries and the happiness that truth brings cannot be if there is no experimentation in self-discovery. The fear of knowing the self truly and living in denial prevents the experience to the self and the ultimate faculties to apply one self.

It is fear that is asking for identification, especially psychological and the identification with another, with a group or with an ideology.

Never can there be a venturing on the uncharted sea of truth or happiness, when one cannot come without undertaking the journey into the ways of the self.

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If one is aware of the whole process of spiritual identification, outward as well as inner, if one sees that its outward expression projected by the inner demand, then there is a possibility of discovery and happiness. He who has identified himself can never know freedom, in which alone all truth comes into being.

 

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