Identity is the Enemy

[AndyC]

I was stuck in this existential drift.
Floating on the ripples of space
Time shifts
I brought it to my senses
The only thing that was bound
by the tensions of meaning
Was this dreaming
This dreaming where
I had an identity
but the truth was
Identity is the enemy.
What I mean is,
To individualize,
You divert the eyes
Inward towards nothing
And as time goes by
We've seen nothing.
You can't fight fire with fire
Fight demise with desire
But you can open your eyes up
You can stand up and rise up
Focus with intent
Experience the world
Don't judge yourself
Understand the senses
Let that be your intention
Meditation
Same thing
Exist.
But don't drift.
If you didn't catch my drift
This is 3rd person narration
And this is my personal meditation.


Peace.

 

[Cognisant]

Bravo

 

[gilliatt]

Identity: To exist is to be something, the other way is to be nothing, non-existence. Existence is Identity. A is A. Red is Red, a circle is a circle. Everything is what it is, its characteristics constitute its identity. The Law of Identity remains the same, never changing. Capitalism is not a thing, not a substance like an animal, man, it never changes.. It is a universal! What is wrong with the world? It is our leaders' attempt to evade the fact that A is A.

 

[ZombieHitler]

I think that generally this is kind of the crux and blind spot of humanity, overall,

If you think about it, generally we have throughout human societies, always tended to look outward for many answer or solution to thing, and when it comes to our own selves, it only exits much as what is observable to the human eye, and otherwise, the internal world, or the internal self cannot not possibly exist or have any redeemable qualities or meaning that exists beyond physical representations of reality.

So yes, "our selves" "the self" doe not exist, except as some perpendicular, or strange and periphery sensation that need be cut and sanitized from the source itself from which it came.

But see, this is what humanity ha always tried to do, civilization and the like throughout the age, and I think IMHO, where largely it goes wrong. It is kind of ironic in a way in which you think about it, and also sort of profane and spiritual in the inherent nature of the question. It goes along really well with the philosophical concept of the "third eye" if you were look into it.

 

[Black Rose]

identity is not outside yourself.
it is authenticity.

 

[TheManBeyond]

somehow Reading this poem and looking at that avatar of yours makes me unconfortable