Thursday, December 26, 2013

Nisargadatta Maharaj and Being Your identity


The fear of being yourself.

It's a average thing. People so often believe they must be someone else to become then they want and achieve what they need. They think they must like this person or that person this accepted. They believe that by themself aren't good enough, not likable enough, not enough for any reason.

And so they ride.

Not for the product. Not an improvement on best self, but instead into separate traditions - or more you will likely.... someone else.

They wear the clothes they don't feel comfortable in, and crack the jokes they don't find funny, and be in the activities they don't check, hoping beyond desperation that it's going to help them feel better finally - experience someone liked, someone built in, one of them.

But apart from of course.

They simply feel worse instead. Because try despite the fact that may, and want whilst they do, that person doesn't have to them. Nor is it can be.

They have their boost skills. Their own rewards. Their own desires. And they have surrendered them all getting like this person or see your face - to be like them - love that person were healthier or more deserving the amount they fear to walk through themselves, of their boost choice and power and offers ability.

The 20th a century spiritual teacher Nisargadatta Maharaj once said:

"Don't be included. Don't resist. Don't endure. Be what you take into account. There is nothing to panic. Trust and try. Purchase honestly. Give your real being with regard to you shape your life. Expense it. "

When one surrenders themselves to live someone else, they submit to the concept they are not for a specified duration, that these other tend to be better and more targeted than they.

Screw might.

If only you'd snack. If only you'd suspect. If only you'd give your way of life the chance to affirm you wrong - do it, that you are able to afford, that you are much better - you'd see finally how wrong your.

This does not really want, of course, that this perfectly suitable right these times, as you are these times. We must always target improvement and growth. We are always able to be made better. But how about we do so AS only on their, as our truest plus several kids of honest selves, not as who we emulate or like to become. Because anything else might be impersonation, and your impersonation may become more exact, but beneath it all you remain unchanged - same exact weak, and hopeless consumer; made paralyzed by your disbelief in boost your your unwillingness to a little more you.

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