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'Don't take things personally; what other people say (or think) about you is their reality'.
'You do not live for other people you live for yourself. The opinions of others do not define you'
I have heard people say 'well that is selfish' because if you just go your own way then you are ignoring others opinions and you may become a social outcast. I have experienced this because I have been told I am a renegade I do not conform to mass opinion and have strange ideas many have tried to get me to 'join' the mainstream. One could say I might make others uncomfortable or they have nothing in common with me or I with them, be that as it may that does not mean I am without love and compassion, maybe in this world that is not enough, and then again I could be fooling myself and living a set of delusions.
Well what does make me or anybody; perhaps ones religion--I do not have one although born into one, I see religion or rather the dogma as a sticking point to another's view if one holds tight to it. I do not have a political party nor am I a rebel, yes I do have opinions about it,especially when the policies sell arms to kill and austerity measures when profit makes policies over people and make them poor and miserable. I do not have a culture these are traditions which make one a member of and some cases shuts out dialogue and communication with others not of the same ilk. I like to cultivate compassion and whatever love is.
We can be defined and boxed, compartmentalised and some instances corralled, fenced and bullied into a prison of the mind and a material one. We are who we are by definition and if one has strong ropes binding to them then the attack, defend, justify and seek others and instruments to cement the tribe, the hoard, the gang are employed.
This collection of ring-fences solidify the perception of who we are and on close reflection this is only a false reality. These are but thoughts in a sequential manner which can be digitally resequenced by a master brain washer as in being brainwashed especially under intergeneration and the media. When we realize we are but a set of conditioned responses, a bunch of automatic habits which can manipulated, reconfigured and labeled in any brand, panic can set in, distraction sort, bury ones head in the sand, get lost in some fantasy world, suicide, depression in fact these false realities no mater whether religious, cultural or political are but agreed traditions over thousands of years and are so ingrained and impacted they assume solid fact and reality, but in reality are the exact opposite.
I have known and it is my experience this impact and the Eastern Philosophy and Quantum Stuff and especially the Koan with deep meditation helped me cope with this yawning abyss and the seeming realization; there is no real me that can be defined, this is startling, alarming and shocking at first; will I be a dumb vegetable, a senile blubbering talking gibberish vagabond type hobo, tramp weirdo. Then again this is a definition, or an attempt to define who we / I / you are. The ego mind the mind that wants a label to justify and concrete its existence cannot abide being 'nothing'.
Watching the antics of the ego mind trying to reclaim itself, to claw back some safety, some essence of its former apparent solidity and assured eternal life and reality is indeed a way of just 'standing back' as it were and watch the performances and trickery to define, be and establish a platform of reality, a solid foundation. I have seen archaeologists, historians, scientists, politicians and in fact all people in everyday life me too, go into denial when challenged with facts and figures which really 'press the buttons' and cause attack, smear, sulk and in fact every human facet of psychological, mental and physical means to keep status quo.
Yet to truly dive into the undefined, the gap, the void, the emptiness, the nothingness one finds one has no defined anything and yet is a something. The something of nothing that isn't anywhere and yet permeates everything.
Now watch the mind desperately seek to define, encompass and become a something, a label, a logical world citizen ----a somebody-----------?
SHACK
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