Identification as a Choice
La identificación como una elección
A student reflects on the freedom that comes from recognizing identification as a choice, and the teacher responds with a caution against turning spiritual practice into another source of guilt.
Identification as a Choice
A student reflects on the freedom that comes from recognizing identification as a choice, and the teacher responds with a caution against turning spiritual practice into another source of guilt.
Knowing that identification is a choice feels like freedom as well. It feels freer.
So you're saying that knowing identification is a choice feels freer to you? Yes. I think it's important not to make room for the deep sense we carry that we're doing something wrong, and not to associate that feeling with the spiritual work.
Guilt and spiritual misunderstanding
Even in Christianity, which has become a very big influence on this feeling of guilt, I think it's a misunderstanding. If you look at the origin of some of the words, like "sin," they point to a different meaning entirely. So I always say: there's no rush and no pressure.
Make as many pieces as you can. All the lives.
Exactly. And why not? At some point, naturally, it's like eating cake. At some point, you don't want any more. But if you do, you might as well.
Cake's a good metaphor for me.