Hello, my friends. So
I was reflecting
on one of the
it
nobel
butts to indictment
Buddhas
8fold noble path to enlightenment.
And one of the
one of the parts is called right view.
And of course, buddhist doctrine defines that as no view or all views,
which is a very succinct summary
of
perspective.
And actually, if you realize that you will never try to be right
or prove somebody to be wrong.
But today I want to
talk about a deeper perspective, a deeper
uh understanding of what we call identity.
So we all have
innumerable identities even as the roles we play father, son, daughter, mother,
sister, brother,
significant other Children, social interactions,
personal relationships on and on.
So
that of course,
um
it's a provisional identity.
Everything that we think we are,
we are actually not because it's very provisional.
Your body can't be an identity
that is permanent.
You start as a fertilized egg and end up all the way in dusty death.
Your mind can't be your identity,
absolute identity because it changes all the time.
Your personality can be your identity
because it was all the time. Hopefully.
So what is identity? Well,
we can start with very provisional identities.
I am this body, this mind this personality right now,
provisional because it's going to change.
Or we can go to our conditioned mind identity
which is our bio. You know, these are my credentials.
This is the school I went to, this is the family I came from.
This is our economic status.
This is how much I earned, this is my job etcetera, etcetera.
This is my salary
and these are my goals? Okay, that's the conditional mind identity?
We can also call it the ego identity. The ego being, your personality.
That identity is easily found on linkedin,
right?
People want to know who you are, what do you do,
Where do you live and what your accomplishments are.
They go to
linkedin
and look up your bio.
There's another identity. I call it the sole profile.
It's still relative by the way, still relative.
The sole profile is who you are at a deeper level, who you are at a deeper level.
So right now,
let me help you create your soul profile because it reflects your values.
And I suggest actually
that if you're something like Lincoln,
you post your soul profile too and see who matches that.
And you know that is
the ideal web of relationship.
People who share your values.
They can be a customers, they can also be your employers,
they can also be your employees.
And this is a deeper level of understanding our
one of our provisional identities. But this level
is actually
the level of
self esteem.
It's still conditioned by karma et cetera.
But it is the level of give Ottman, you know, the soul,
the
Let's say, the conditions, conditions. So
that recycles.
So take a piece of paper and write down
three phrases or three words to the following questions.
# one
who will water by
three words, three phrases.
Number two,
What do I want?
two words, three words or three phrases?
Number three, what is my purpose? Two or three words or phrases?
Number four, what am I grateful for?
Two or three words or phrases?
And now we get a little also more um deep
here because these questions are come out of a context.
So next question would be um I guess it's the fifth question is what is the
contribution I want to make to my family and to my society or to the world,
depends on how big you want to think
that would be. Number five, probably number six is
Well,
how did I feel when I had a peak experience or experience of transcendence or wonder?
You know like observing your first one for the
first time or looking across at the grand canyon
of being moved by a piece of poetry of music or whatever. Your peak experience
cesar, Right down into three words what you felt, what you felt.
Okay, so that's number seven I think it doesn't matter now, we'll keep going.
I don't remember all the numbers. So peak experiences
contribution and we've already asked what is my purpose?
So that goes there and then what
ah
lessons can
I learned from my mentors in history, mythology, religion or
the contemporary
world scene, who are my heroes, who are my heroines?
What do they represent and what can I learn from them?
Next would be write down two or 3 answers
to? What do I look for
as the qualities
in others that I want to relate with? So what are the qualities I look for?
Perhaps in my best friends? And why?
Why do I resonate with those qualities?
Next question would be, what are my unique talents?
What are my unique gifts? And when I express them, do I lose track of time
and who benefits so unique talents?
And last question here, what are the qualities I look for in my relationships?
What do I give? What do I receive? Okay, so summarize who am I?
What do I want towards my purpose?
What am I grateful for?
What? My big experiences? How did I feel?
What is my contribution?
Who are my heroes, heroines, mentors in history, religion mythology.
What are the qualities I look for in a good friend?
What are my unique talents and gifts? How do I express them? Who benefits?
And what do I look for in a relationship? What do I give? What do I receive?
So that's your sole profile posted on linkedin. See who connects with you.
Just right
now,
those people share the same values as you and you will resonate and they are
the ecosystem in which you should be operating if you want to maximize success.
So all these are relative identities, provisional identities.
None of them is a physical thing, you know? None of them is how tall am I are?
You know, how much are we
are
all of that?
Okay,
so now there's a deeper identity which I
call absolute identity which transcends all these provisional identities
that we can get to when we practice focused awareness on these questions, but also
have a practice of meditation that leads us to transcendence or samadi.
That absolute identity is I'm infinite possibilities.
I am infinitely creative.
I am unpredictable.
I harness creativity as my ground state of entanglement
and
that creativity comes from synchronicity
on non local correlations.
I am
self evolving, self regulating,
irreducible, absolute fundamental. Formless, infinite
truth,
absolute identity. Space, lys
dimension, lys, timeless, immortal.
So
these are our identities.
Try this exercise of soul profile.
Question your identity
every day
and keep asking those questions.
And
sooner or later you will have
an awakening
and
discover
your true self.
Talk to you soon.
By the way, I'm still in India were traveling tomorrow back to the United States