A tough one: an identity of wanting to get somewhere
As the process of exploring who and what we are moves along, we get to more and more core identities... We come face to face with them, how they are all too narrow, their (mostly unpleasant) effects on our life and the lives of those around us, and the necessity of surrendering them.
Last weekend was one of those times when core identities came to the surface. I found myself in the midst of a judgment and irritability attack, where everything was a trigger for both to come up. Not only was I helpless in doing anything about it, it also seemed that all my work in the past was for nothing... that its effect was zero. I was back in the grips of old patterns just as before, maybe even worse than before. (This weekend, my partner went into something very similar.)
And this too can be seen as a deepening of the process.
It is a wearing off of core identities and beliefs... of an identity of wanting to get somewhere... wanting my practice to pay off... wanting my life to be good... wanting a sense of ease...
All of these identities and beliefs came up against reality, and lost, as beliefs always do. Reality always wins, hands down. Even if we try to hold onto identities, the inevitable friction between identity and reality makes them erode... it may be a painful process, and it may take a while, but they do erode... And we can make it a little easier by seeing what is going on, bringing the identities into awareness, seeing how they are too limiting, and consciously allowing them the freedom to fall away.
Labels: beliefs, identification, identity