Let's use "friend" as an example,when we ask someone to be a friend what are we asking them?We are asking them to conform to our Ideological standard of that label,causing the individual to change you they naturally are. If one does not adhere to our idea of the label,it causes suffering for both.We are asking someone to be something they are not.
Our opinion of what a "friend" is depends on our conditioning and past experiences.My idea of what's a friend is different than your idea,different than anyone's.Though some of the qualities can be the same,we each have our own individual idea of what a "friend" should be.We expect others to take on our beliefs,as if they are Law,making them Slaves to our concepts.
Giving up the labeling of others as well as labeling ourselves,gives each of us the opportunity to experience a freedom that cant be identified by any label.When we take a moment to stop the labeling,we can experience this freedom as the truth of your own Being.Namaste.
You would be more qualified to answer this question of yours if you lived alone on a desert island for a couple years...
ReplyDeleteWhen we come to earth we judge! What you are calling label is the result of judging people. Judging other people places and things is what we came here to do to have the contextual experiences we came here to have.
The reason we do this, is because we want to experience who we are, and this is impossible where we come from, there, all is, all is know, all is one, their is not context, so experience doesn't exist, only the knowing is possible.
Since experience is much grander than just knowing it self, we come here, and we judge, so we can have the illusion that we are separate, we can have the illusion that we do not know (we agree to forget we know), so we can have the illusion that we can die, so we can have the illusion of better or worse, good and bad... etc.
You can't "let" someone be free, they already are free. We have been taught that we should emote based on rule, rules of how others "see" or judge or as you said label us.
How you feel, say happy, is a choice that you make, independent of others. The lie is that it matters what others think, and that it can effect your state. Masters like Jesus tried to teach this, even in death they didn't take his happiness, his love. His example was his teaching to give us back to our power, he even said his followers would do greater works than he, and reminded the "you are gods".
We don't have to believe the lie that part of us is bad, that the part of you that labels or judges is bad. That is denying a part of yourself, and if you deny it is even you, you can no longer control it. So to gain control of your judgments and labels, simply do not deny them as yours, accept them as gifts, just as the darkness can define the light. Love and hugs :)
As long as we are ignorant of the nature of consciousness we are going to be the slaves to labels.One is so identified with the labels that he has no doubt about his nature.Labels are utilitarian and are useful to function in the phenomenal reality.To communicate with the other some label is required but we must be aware that we are not that label.To get a visa you have to show your American passport but in the essential sense you do not belong to any country.The humanity is so much identified with the labels that they are fighting for labels like country,religion,region,race,language etc.Till we are endowed with Self-knowledge things will be like this.Self-knowledge is possible through self-inquiry in which we watch the working of the mind,its mechanics,its self protective measures.Through watching the shell of the ego which is nothing but a collection of labels around the conscious spark making the spark dim,is broken.If seed wants to become flower it has to break.There is security in seed and there is vulnerability after breaking the shell of ego.So naturally humanity opts for continuation of being in the phase of seed.There is security in seed but there is no life in the seed.There is life in the flower and it releases its fragrance but it is vulnerable.One wind,all petals of the flowers blow away,or some animal may eat,or some monkey minded human may pluck it for no reason.Freedom is vulnerable.Labels represent resistance to this vulnerability and so labels are anti-life.Don't become a slave to labels because it amounts to living like a dad person.For growth of consciousness living dangerously is a way of life.Then only we break open the shell of labels and become free.
ReplyDeleteCongratulations on the new blog, and best of luck!
ReplyDeleteCongratulations to the new blog.Namaste.
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