Strange and Wrong Identification

[Guest guest]

Let me give examples of some very strange identifications. People

identifying more with their clothes and hunger instead of their bodies or

even lives!

All these incidences happened in Arusha, Tanzania some 15 or more years ago.

 

There was this beggar happily chewing on a roasted maize/corn cob which

somebody must have bought for him. I was about 20 feet behind him. As this

beggar crossed the street without looking, concentrating on his lunch, he

was hit by a car and tossed high up in the air. He landed on the windscreen

and then rolled on the ground.

As I ran towards him, I saw that he was still conscious. He was crawling

about looking for something. I thought maybe the shock has confused him and

maybe he was looking for his teeth or something! Everybody who witnessed

the scene was surprised when with a yell of delight the beggar found the

corn-on-cob he was looking for and went on his way as if nothing had happened.

At that time this beggar was obviously identifying himself with his hunger

more than with his body or even life!

 

The other incident involved a fight. Somebody had knifed a young man and he

was bleeding. Instead of being concerned about this deep wound in his leg

he was holding his trousers and trying to get the blood off it and looking

at the tear in it. He was shouting something about having borrowed the

trouser and shirt for an interview or something and worrying about how he

could ever pay back the 'cloth/loan sharks'. So this person was identifying

more with the clothes than his own body or life!

 

In the same way our bodies and minds become so important and urgent to us

that we start identifying with them. We forget that the body/mind is just

like the clothes we wear and not us.

If in the above examples somebody gave the beggar enough food and the young

man cash to pay for the trousers they would then start identifying with

their bodies and their wounds and realize the danger that they were in!

 

So what would it take for us to realize that we too are wrongly identifying

with our body/mind and that we are in fact pure awareness, not what we are

aware of?

 

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I Love You,

Cyber Dervish

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