SHACK 782 DO I

Rumblings

Do I feel safe without an Identity?  Yes. Why so? Because to me a fixed identity means a reality that seems solid and abiding, whereas deep within me and what I witness in the Universe and Earth especially at this time of the pandemic in 2020 of every day news of thousands infected and thousands dying, although there is a controversy because in any influenza year thousands die and yet it is not generally mentioned.

I champion the impermanence of things so called material, mechanical and mind sets, they pass and change and death carries away the physical experience of them all, whether the memories pass over with the fleeing consciousness, whether there is no after life and oblivion and whether there is reincarnation is really a side issue because whilst alive it seems real and solid and the reality of this affords an identity and this lays out a platform to stand on and relative safety and security and yet the nagging thought of the demise and the grim reaper may undermine that and so many distractions and buried tamped down thoughts may shake the foolproof safeguards and ploys to offset this latent fear.

So coming to terms that one's identity is but a hook to hold one's reality on and if contemplated and debated one could shift the hook to another favourable choice, however it will be as unsustainable as the former one.

So could realising that not having a permanent 'hook reality identity' and really seeing this through and really experiencing the apparent emptiness, the gap vacated by the hook / identity be that boring and depressing that is imagined and just a touch of this void be that disastrous and like wading into the sea or stepping tentatively into the hot bath or cold shower and on relaxing and getting used to floating free as it were one could find its really quite OK.

One does not have to defend the choice of identity accept those who say one should have an identity and that one is a prevaricator or some such thing, however the freedom on experiencing this 'no hook' makes up for the harassment or oddball that others may aim at one. 

So do I ---no I don't.

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