Saturday, February 26, 2022

The Illusion of Identity

I wrote a post a couple of weeks ago that was basically about all the various illusions of "self" with which we identify, and by which the human ego maintains its separative existence.  The sense of separation, as we see in our own country, in the world at large, and perhaps in our own lives, engenders nothing but competition, conflict, and strife instead of cooperation.

This is a meditation upon a poetic turn of phrase which Meher Baba dictated regarding the conundrum of identity.  The prayer is: "I am not the body.  I am not the mind.  I am not this.  I am not that.  I am nothing but a living lie of the truth that is me.  And unless the lie is dead, the truth cannot be."

The video was created by Jerry Watson.



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