The PRISON of BELIEF IDENTITY

When we define ourselves, we confine ourselves. When we identify with our beliefs, we create all kinds of problems and limitations for ourselves. Who we are is not who we believe ourselves to be.
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[@NorthernKitty]

The magic moment of freedom for me was realizing that my "identity" was having no identity. I am who I am at this moment. Something different from a moment ago, and also different from a moment from now.

[@shaylahealinglight]

This is very wise.

[@JShul]

Your channel has really changed my life brother. I've been watching all of your videos everyday for a while now and I am profoundly amazed out how much anger I have released from myself in such a short amount of time. Truly, thank you. I hit you up on IG as well showing some gratitude brotha. Bless, J.S

[@shaylahealinglight]

His videos have helped me a lot too just with releasing attachments and expectations and helping me go with the flow which is hard!

[@amankwatra1278]

Beliefs make you attached to the outcome. And as a result you always want certainity.

[@Gtfoots]

certainty can leave you astray. By being open to everything but attaching to nothing. Allows you to let go and takes away the need to even be right it is just not that important to be right all the time.. Thoughts become emotions we attach to those thoughts create emotions and those emotions will lead to familiar behaviors. So by changing your thought you change your energy.

[@warwickwestonwrigful]

One of the many principles of enlightenment is to let go of your identity completely. Without identity there can be no prejudice or war. What you can get people to believe depends greatly on a persons identity. With identity it can be possible to get people to believe absurdities. Voltaire famously said 'Those who can get people to believe absurdities can get them to commit atrocities'. Everything this dude is saying is very true, but I have noticed that letting go of identity takes a lot of discipline and practice. I am practicing this now in my life. Paradoxically letting go of your identity will augment your ability to know yourself.

[@elliottpaine9259]

"When we define ourselves, we confine ourselves." So true. And persona being rooted in mask? That is very interesting. I have seen in my own life, not a need to do a persona, but, in getting attached to an ideal that appeals to me. Very quickly i find that life itself is still bigger than the ideal and lm left groping and considering again. ppl want stability and an ideal can offer that. almost like a mental laziness to not have to do any considering anymore now that Ive got my "ideal persona". Or the feelings of inadequacy drive us to claim some belief identity too.

[@fuifuiahkuoi3058]

This video is definitely slept on, honestly this is so true and profound!

[@kmtkarma7850]

True, True...!

[@shaylahealinglight]

Not everybody ready to hear this!! This dude on a whole another level he is very wise.

[@Gamer67113]

Very slept on Everyone needs to hear this and pay close attention lol

[@joseysparadise9899]

Listening to what you’re saying is like having all my scattered subconscious thoughts spoken back to me coherently. Thank you.

[@annee5582]

I think when we learn to except “who am I” and to understand that we are always evolving in this lifetime. And now matter good or bad, we learn to love all that we are without apology. Then we can live our best life.

[@Bladeczek]

Honestly it's hard to believe in coincidence that this video happend to pop up as the first one on my recommending when just today I had many thoughts about this topic. Thank you for your videos, I have watched quite a few already and I find your channel really impactful, honest and most importantly helpful.

[@loveeveryone8057]

BEST!!!! Video ...I have seen in years.......Nailed so much ...Thank you....**two thumbs up**

[@sunshinecompany1]

This is exactly why I like being alone...when I'm around people I'm pulled back into small limiting person-hood.😳...it's so constricting and suffocating now.😇

[@whooiszaza]

out of all the videos i’ve watched of us his and others this is the one I think that is resonating with me the most ! such a profound and powerful outlook

[@nomebear]

Beautiful man, thank you! Possessing an open mind has allowed rays of unfiltered healing light to flow, and to bring about change.

[@eduardochavacano]

love it, rays of light.

[@angirgie729]

What kind of change do you think is needed may I ask?

[@michelletoni3067]

Yep, so true, if society would just leave others alone, worry about their own identities, and stop holding others back, this world could be free, but they keep pulling others back & this is why everyone walks around happily, why can’t we all just get along & be truly free…. labels suck & its not right or fair.

[@50centricher9]

I love this channel

[@kahlschlag17]

Absolutely brilliant. I am really glad to have found your channel. I imagine it could at times become quite loanly in this crazy world when you are as spiritually evolved as you are. I know I often feel like I am in a mad house. Take good care and GOD bless.

[@blackopal3138]

This isn't a problem for the people in this metaphorical prison. It's a problem for the rest of us. Psychology calls it 'openness', as in, open-minded or close minded. Definitely one of the keystone plateaus of the human condition. Being someone who has already got all this, I find myself barraged with vectors, at the moment, of directions I could comment. So, alas, I'm overwhelmed into following none of them, lol. Or just can't articulate right, now. I'll give this thought though. While I completely understand your foundation, and follow along, up to the point when you are talking about not being one's thoughts. I understand not accepting labels very well, it's something I decided for myself 30 yrs ago, to not accept any label, but, right now, I can't see how one could completely separate their identity from their thoughts completely. Cogito ergo sum, I agree with Descartes on this point. And he declared this after doing precisely what we are discussing, by emptying his mind of any associations to the material world. We ARE what we think. No? I also understand the limits of language, and suspect that may be the divergence here. But I am interested to know if I'm not missing something at this particular point of the journey, i.e. all washed down, clean, pure identity, and then not seeing the door that opened. ....a past thought experiment ~ if I'm not my thoughts, then I am no different than a mushroom. ....Ok, let's try that. When we were very young adults, my friends and I decided the best philosophy in life was to just, 'be'. We had some, but really very little, idea how wise that was. Like a mushroom, just be. I am not my thoughts, I am a human, a human who is just 'be'ing. I am a human being.~ .. but, I am my thoughts, lol. Is their a milestone here for me to achieve??? Am I missing it? And, I think a big part of the present state of things is that it's not random evolution, it's social engineering. Public solidarity is the greatest force on this planet, without competition, and that power is a threat to those who hold power, now. i.e. they keep us separated, suspicious of each other. ahh, language suks. It's too cumbersome to be useful anymore. Take care,man. You're a wise traveller. Peace

[@jzhz5269]

Its always good to try to see where the persons view is coming from, hopefully its from truth and heart.❤

[@loriwakefield1]

I believe you are right and I have learned the most and grown the most from people that where hard to get along with stretch our souls

[@ShaneAusinka6]

Mate you hit the nail on the head so hard it's gone flying straight through the other side ....

[@markhenry2726]

To know yourself, BE yourself. Recognize the fundamental reality of being, without referring to a thought or a concept or a belief to tell you what you are. Be what you are, encounter basic reality, the immediate felt experience of the present. Don’t tell yourself a story about your experience in the present moment, simply be... in doing this we realize that what we truly are, our innermost essence and our true identity, has absolutely nothing to do with belief. I am that I am.

[@quietly3096]

Brilliant. So well spoken and clear. Thank you.

[@ARichardP]

Hard-headed beliefs divide. Really enjoying this channel.

[@MFMc2]

We all like to be right but, it's like we need to hold on to something that will help to make us feel like we have a purpose..if we can just accept our situation without wanting confirmation of why we are struggling with a mindset that refuses to let us just be ,and enjoy doing what ever brings is into alignment with our souls purpose..thanks for making us see the bigger picture ☀️

[@kt6332]

Lol! It took me most my life and several different baptisms along with the realization that the labels my family and society put on me weren’t true and who I am. I still don’t know who I am and it changes all the time and I am totally down with that, it’s a real since of freedom for me!🤪🙏🙏

[@msanrai]

This guy...I love him!

[@plantmama7442]

Congrats on 100k subscribers! Your content has had such an impact on my life and I’m so thankful. You give me hope good people exist and to continue the hard journey of loving & accepting my flawed self. Thank you again 🙏🏽

[@davewolf8869]

"before the thought arose you existed already" this is interesting.

[@AdrianFoster101]

Your wisdom continues to add clarity to my life. I thank you for this particular topic/discussion.

[@christinefoesier5481]

I thought i was alone in the world with my thoughts, but this guy thinks like i do 🤔

[@yourtypicalwokestoner8117]

Honestly same

[@Martha_thl]

Me too. I was like, What? How does he know my thoughts and realizations?

[@edwintepuendikum3527]

Same here 🙏🏿🙌🏿

[@aubreysottile8276]

Lol yeah

[@leopemberton5439]

Find out who you are by finding out who you are not. A process of ellimination .what is left💚 THANK YOU

[@jamganoza8315]

I'm grateful to have found your channel. I watch your videos every morning while I eat breakfast. Keep it up!

[@mariajosegarciapallares9447]

Thank you for your clarity of mind, sharing your knowledge and articulating your thoughts so amazingly well 💜

[@rjc7289]

You are who you are, and that's all you need to be. That's the only "label" I or anyone else should ever need!

[@DaarkDestiny]

I find myself reacting to certain people honestly. People who don't want to share information, they're just arguing to prove that they are always right, and I'm always stupid. My brother does this at every family gathering. He and my father love to gang up on me usually. Everyone else just sits and doesn't respond to anything they say. I suppose I'm going to have to do the same lol. I give narcissists their supply of superiority. I really don't know how I identify myself. I've been going through a rough period for a while now. But I have no problem saying that "I don't know". But when someone calls me names I do become very triggered. When someone purposely calls me something I don't find to be true, it makes me mad. When someone calls me fat it doesn't bother me because I am lol. But when someone calls me stupid and unreasonable it upsets me because I try very hard to be a reasonable person.

[@RavenMadd9]

yes my friend ....thsnk you for another look at myself in the mirror video

[@JoshuaSwan]

Brilliant

[@jcsh3211]

This talk was very enlightening in my current life’s idea of what “ belief” I am holding too and it really does make sense to me to actually open up my heart/mind to other Ideas to grow. I’ve realized that I have put myself in a very high achieving goal in a certain belief system that I haven’t stepped back to reassess some deeper levels of realizations/workings within, before adherence to a belief. Not to mention after working through these needed steps first, will I actually be able to accept my self and or resonate with beliefs. It feels so odd to me to live in this world without an understanding and foundation of a higher being. This has most definitely amongst other helpful videos of yours really open my heart/mind to something to consider for personal growth. I Kindly appreciate your helpful content.🌿

[@billwhite9701]

This is a message that will bring us all closer to a place of productive consciousness,reconnecting us to our true place in this life and our influence over the experience. Thank you.

[@dharavasishth]

this was great, sir. I request to have your views on grief and how to go about the loss of someone you love.

[@Vashti0825]

Beliefs are labels so people feel comfortable and in control.

[@eduardochavacano]

or they feel like they belong because they are so scared to be alone knowing that they are weak.

[@bbrangman9325]

That is a informative video, thank you. Reminder to everyone, World Ego Awareness Day (WEAD) is May 11th 2022, Namaste.

[@annee5582]

The problem is not the label he/she put on you, but your own label of yourself. What ever you identify, you are forever evolving. It’s okay to define you. Just do it. How else are you to learn.

[@susanshepard4688]

Thank you, i see What youre saying

[@themetalgardener4960]

This extends to things like sex and gender identities. Other cultural norms like monogamy and straight, or even gay. Why some gay people are antagonistic towards bi/pan/heteroflexible/homoflexible people. Also this is the heart of nationalism, which is at the heart of just about every bad political thing ever. Even if no one told you that things that are different attack you and things you care about, this talk explains the subconscious reasoning that happens innately in humans until we become aware and rise above it.

[@amyroberts9761]

Damn, you're good!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[@peaches2525]

I needed to hear this...thanks.. ... To who I am.

[@eliago7599]

I have been really frustrated with trying to understand what bothers me so much about the people in my life. You perfectly put into words what I think is wrong with them and myself. We use belief as an identity. As someone who likes to debate and challenge what people think, i'm put off by how much people take it personally when I try to show them a new perspective, and I get upset when they think I was trying to attack them. Still, I think that it's easier to live confined by a label. You can fit in more easily with a defined group, and just live off the high that you get when they compliment you or make you feel a false sense of belonging. Sure, it's sad, but some people just can't get enough of it. I used to be like that, I know better now but I feel like I _felt_ happier back then

[@goncaloqueiroz8734]

Gandalf is that you? ahahahah no seriously you are wise man. Love your words

[@jesusmind1611]

Excuse me brother I am very lonely but yes. We are free to believe as we will and this is the cause of our separation. I was not expecting a hermitage this year but here I am in Covidville 2020. I normally sit around the Ashram (Hanuman Temple) and talk with people like you and now I sit alone. Thanks for speaking up. I will look at your solitude videos. Very good chat, straight up good chit. Do you know the mantra, Oh Wa Tah Goo Saim?

[@AwakenInsight]

I like your sense of humor. Thank you for the laugh. Love!

[@edwintepuendikum3527]

Profound videos bro, Thanks for your words of wisdom 🙏🏿🙌🏿.

[@jennabutler8847]

You went deeeeep amazing video

[@madinat.3863]

thank you for all your videos.

[@Gtfoots]

Love it

[@Irisphotojournal]

You are right, but it took many years to break free from my conditioning. I knew something wasn't right with this world from an early age but didn't understand what it was. I know better now.!

[@freespirit-111]

I’m aware that I cannot be defined. The ‘I’ that I think I am…..is difficult to define.

[@minimutt1000]

Thank you.

[@pureblissmel]

well said👍🏼❤️

[@jesusmind1611]

The sadhu was huge and unwieldy, but the Self was so very small and free

[@lando1k979]

🙏🏾

[@kat6186]

💚

[@kingofdubb2133]

❤

[@aNnAkt1qw]

❤❤❤

[@thetaeater]

🤯 thanks so much for this pragmatic lecture. So when we associate with people's who's beliefs ARE KNOWING to them it's best just to not engage in those topics?

[@tomjohn8733]

This, I can identify with in many ways, sounds like story of my life, sadly, but the older we get, the worse we become, take yesterday, took my cousins dog to the park, met some nice people, but when it was over, the worse we felt, like a drug addict , who feels great as long as he on his choice of drug, but when it’s over the worse he feel... Peace

[@builderbob3149]

👍

[@4321Wo]

Belief identies may seem redundant, but as part of human development, they are indispensable. Some theories try to describe this phenomenon, for example models like Spiral Dynamics, or the works of Susanne Cook-Greuter and Ken Wilber.

[@IIrandhandleII]

Awakening with JD

[@anijaetwa]

Me. Rn. Questioning why I feel so separate from everyone. & why I keep trying to fit in

[@tonyad.eggleston8793]

It was tough trying explain this to my Ex. The belief became the dealbreaker. Bc I didn’t know. & he couldn’t show.

[@mvp5514]

I was imprisoned by Beliefs for over half a Century. 😥

[@eduardochavacano]

at least you managed to break free. But yeah, its amazing how some of us stayed that long in such reality. Given that we are smarter than most people.

[@buddybuddy8248]

there is nothing to know or to understand after descovering, that we dont know anything, just what we live is this moment, after that, there is. without knowing, is just be

[@truthseeker1871]

there's a lot of talk here about "we" and how "we" think and feel and respond to life situations. Who is this "we" ? Presumably all humans. That collectivism will not work. We are not all the same. There are lots of falsehoods in this piece. With this kind of thinking it is not hard to believe that thou hast failed in many attempts to make it with a woman. I recommend that you be flexible until your eyes water if you want to have a satisfactory relationship with a woman. I did it for more years than you have been living. Humility. Work hard on that. Treat her with the utmost respect. I was advised to identify with no one and nothing. I took the advice with gratitude. Who I am is nobody. So clearly I cannot wear the suit offered in this talk.

[@flyingsnake3737]

There is no need to have a satisfactory relationship with a woman. The first person or entity you should have a good relationship with is yourself. There are a lot of falsehoods in your statement as well.

[@someguyspage1809]

Truth Seeker, maybe you should trying seeking humility.

[@truthseeker1871]

@@someguyspage1809 another troll enters the picture. You are obviously one of them if not the author. You obviously cannot read.

[@someguyspage1809]

@@truthseeker1871 You come off arrogantly and when I call you on it, that makes me a troll? Nope. I just call 'em as I see 'em. If you get butt-hurt, that's on you.

[@truthseeker1871]

@@someguyspage1809 You're a troll. there's no doubt about it. no humanoid has ever referred to me as arrogant. you obviously don't know the meaning of the word. I have no time for dunces like you.

[@himydad1499]

True, but it’s an inconvenient truth

[@sweetyvlogs4394]

U changed me as a person

[@jesusmind1611]

I believe, but have no way of knowing (yet) that our universal human fear is recognizing how powerful our own life really is. Mind is of no matter and yet my mind is divided for some reason out there. Out there I find no power and so it is obvious that I have no power but what if I recognized that I have God? I became sick to prove your guilt is real and you became whole to help me remember

[@Agapismene]

Society says; ''put on a mask' Inner life ; ' take off the mask/persona' The Mirror

[@eduardochavacano]

I wish I make videos like this. Eventually.

[@jennaknight8863]

You look and act exactly like my friend Justin

[@mimiray9392]

I’m not a noun

[@consciouslifeidentified1844]

So true. You are nothing (no - thing). Closer to a verb, everything, all!

[@jennabutler8847]

Is persona and ego the same thing

[@rocio292]

Someone please answer..What about a situation where someone is not attacking your belief but instead attacking a belief they think you have, that you never argued or presented to them?!? You still feel defensive naturally..Even when you are not even the type to parade around any beliefs! I mainly keep that to myself, I embody my beliefs more than talk about them.

[@aboyade9]

If you have the presence of mind to recognise in the moment that the person is misrepresenting your beliefs then you may have the presence of mind to calmly point that out.

[@eduardochavacano]

i guess you just walk away from such people, especially when they are ugly and insecure, which is most likely the case.

[@nudimensionstheawakenedsou4940]

Nada you speak with authenticity from your heart chakra. I sense who has inspired your awakening. You along with many wisdom teachers have inspired an brought an awakening of insight within me. I yearn to meet you one day. Keep up your inspiring work. You are simple,transparent and authentic from the heart.

[@JShul]

This is exactly why my ex an I broke up. She is a Jehovah witness.

[@eduardochavacano]

and the pastor may be telling them to go after your money

[@nula0043]

Well...I don't think we should strictly know something to believe it...sometimes there are no facts and actual logical confirmation for things...

[@amberv4223]

I agree with you mostly, but - how about the idea that animals should be allowed to live without humans hurting them - that’s about more a belief it’s a real fact that’s occurring. So I’m not sure how to disentangle myself from that and I don’t actually think I want to 💚

[@truthseeker1871]

I hope I go over this piece at least a half dozen times. I think it's the worst of the few pieces I have encountered from the speaker. A lot of stumbling around attempting to enlighten people concerning something. It must be worth something or I wouldn't be going over it again. Belief/identity. That makes no sense. I can believe something without identifying with what I'm believing.

[@Pablo98145]

No Political parties..no religions...no...'movements'....all bogus.....unless you are at least a Bishop or a Knight...get off the Chessboard.

[@eduardochavacano]

This is a very intelligent thing to share. love the way you phrase it.

[@davidwhitcher1972]

Calling yourself an athiest is saying what you are not.

[@sign69]

what if the masks are the nothing becoming something like a flowering but like indulged grotesques that grow into monstrosity and die because there's nothing else that the impulse can do in the infernal machine - the visible is the manifestation of the invisible and turtles all the way down...

[@sign69]

all identity is violence and you say we but for me the we is they and they are in fact in reality antipathetic to my existence and that's the kind of truth and fact and reality of the tribal association constructs and protocols of complicit delusion and perversity for personal and collective survival and procreation and power that's whatever but in this instance of viewing a yt blah about identity I find it annoying when I view others speaking on my behalf if you get my drift and all blabbers seem to do it and get away with it to the extent they appeal to whatever target demographics and it's built into the nature of language and and formats and choreographies and mediation and making youtube clips or booky wookies or video essays or whatever etc and All the endless conception of living beings Gnashing everywhere in Consciousness Throughout the ten directions of space Occupying all the quarters in & out, From supermicroscopic no-bug To huge Galaxy Lightyear Bowell Illuminating the sky of one Mind...

[@ArchofFire3]

Belief is knowledge of truth. Faith hate is old already. Knowledge is ignorance. If nothing is perfect then knowledge itself will have a true flaw.