Identity-Crisis.
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One (I?) just wonders if there is such a thing which is called 'the Identity-Crisis'.
What is termed as 'Identity-Crisis' is in fact 'Identification-Crisis' for the identity fails to assume a form which could be claimed as one's identity, which it could 'identify' with one-self.
The habit of 'identification' is not so strong when one is just a kid.
Slowly one acquires the notion of 'I' as distinct from 'it', 'that', 'you', 'he', 'she'.
Then one acquires the notion of 'we'.
And later on the 'me'.
Still 'I' is not so prominent, and one doesn't need or has an urge for 'identifying' one-self.
Only after getting thus forming a formal, vague image of one-self, this idea gets gradually more and more strengthened and becomes so convincing that even to question (the validity of) this does not occur, and so this becomes a habit.
Though one is always aware of one's existence, because this existence, -the true identity is formless and countless too, immeasurable and never 'abstract' like thoughts, emotions or feelings that come and go away, there is no possibility of being aware of this Reality, - the identity of one-self.
Saying 'one-self' too is misleading.
From there rises the idea of being 'some-one', and 'some-one distinct' from 'the others'.
Both these notions 'one-self' or 'me', and 'the others' are acquired and nurtured because of ignorance and negligence only.
Is not getting rid of these false unfounded notions ('me' and 'the others') is enough 'Self-Realization'?
A wrong notion need not be destroyed, rather understanding of its fallacy is enough to remove it.
So to say, ask or claim about how 'Self-Realization' happens is just utterly absurd.
There is only 'Identification-Crisis'. That too is apparently only.
What to say of 'Identity-Crisis'?
For 'Identity' there is never such a 'Crisis'.
Knowing all 'identifications' as but false / temporary, illusory modes of thinking only, and discarding them is the way to attain the pristine pure state of being the Reality which is without distinctions of any kind.
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One (I?) just wonders if there is such a thing which is called 'the Identity-Crisis'.
What is termed as 'Identity-Crisis' is in fact 'Identification-Crisis' for the identity fails to assume a form which could be claimed as one's identity, which it could 'identify' with one-self.
The habit of 'identification' is not so strong when one is just a kid.
Slowly one acquires the notion of 'I' as distinct from 'it', 'that', 'you', 'he', 'she'.
Then one acquires the notion of 'we'.
And later on the 'me'.
Still 'I' is not so prominent, and one doesn't need or has an urge for 'identifying' one-self.
Only after getting thus forming a formal, vague image of one-self, this idea gets gradually more and more strengthened and becomes so convincing that even to question (the validity of) this does not occur, and so this becomes a habit.
Though one is always aware of one's existence, because this existence, -the true identity is formless and countless too, immeasurable and never 'abstract' like thoughts, emotions or feelings that come and go away, there is no possibility of being aware of this Reality, - the identity of one-self.
Saying 'one-self' too is misleading.
From there rises the idea of being 'some-one', and 'some-one distinct' from 'the others'.
Both these notions 'one-self' or 'me', and 'the others' are acquired and nurtured because of ignorance and negligence only.
Is not getting rid of these false unfounded notions ('me' and 'the others') is enough 'Self-Realization'?
A wrong notion need not be destroyed, rather understanding of its fallacy is enough to remove it.
So to say, ask or claim about how 'Self-Realization' happens is just utterly absurd.
There is only 'Identification-Crisis'. That too is apparently only.
What to say of 'Identity-Crisis'?
For 'Identity' there is never such a 'Crisis'.
Knowing all 'identifications' as but false / temporary, illusory modes of thinking only, and discarding them is the way to attain the pristine pure state of being the Reality which is without distinctions of any kind.
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