Personality is a burden
We have no place for what we call a human being in our contemporary world. For more on this, I strongly recommend this one film called Waking Life, directed by Richard Linklater (Dazed and Confused, Before Sunrise, Before Sunset).
Me, I hardly think of myself as someone. I'm not my past, my mind, my emotions or feelings, even though all those things are real to some extent. I do have memories of past moments in my memory. There is this accumulation of ideas, thoughts, energy and momentum called mind. I lose a train because I was one second late and get pissed off. Emotions are real too. That's not my point here, if there's any. What I'm interested in is the perception that I am none of these things.
I most certainly am not my body.
If you can get past this process of removing "yourselfness" from all those things you were taught to believe were you, talking about personality becomes very simple. Personality is a bunch of labels used to categorize you. Personality is a burden.
This post was inspired by @adakkochan.
Me, I hardly think of myself as someone. I'm not my past, my mind, my emotions or feelings, even though all those things are real to some extent. I do have memories of past moments in my memory. There is this accumulation of ideas, thoughts, energy and momentum called mind. I lose a train because I was one second late and get pissed off. Emotions are real too. That's not my point here, if there's any. What I'm interested in is the perception that I am none of these things.
I most certainly am not my body.
If you can get past this process of removing "yourselfness" from all those things you were taught to believe were you, talking about personality becomes very simple. Personality is a bunch of labels used to categorize you. Personality is a burden.
This post was inspired by @adakkochan.
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