Pretending to be what you are not

[blazeofglory]

At times I live with vainglory and try to be what I am not. The real me is concealed and the false me is manifest. I am by nature a simple man born of a simple parent and grew up simple folks. Now in the city I am trying to cover up what I really am and presenting myself in the order that does not reflect me. I am daydreaming and forgetting or hiding the man I am I became an actor, a hypocritical actor.

And the world today is what it should not be with people with self conceit and deceitfulness. There is constant friction between two warring forces. One is the real one and the other with a label. It is not the person that is recognized it is indeed the label that speaks about the person.

Let us remove the label and present oneself unpretentiously and naturally, not trying to be what we are not.

Remove the layers or labels of personalities, recognitions and things that delimit or define you. You are limitless and indefinable.

I am not a Guru, and the way I present ideas keep me akin to something of a Guru. I write what occurs to me. I have no followers or desire to make at all. Ideas spring up from the fountainhead and we know it very much.

Behaving truthfully and presenting yourself as you are keeps you closer and closer to life

[papayahed]

Wait a minute. In the beginning you said you try to be what you are not and that is hypocritical but then you go on to say you are limitless and indefinable. How do you reconcile these two ideas?

[AimusSage]

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.... Deep ripples of thought are occurring in my puzzled brain.

I don't know who I am, how can anyone know who he truly is without first realizing what he is not? So I just tag along and do what I think fits me, even if in retrospect I will see that it did not fit me at all. You can't know yourself until you have reached the end, because only then can you judge yourself and what you let yourself become. It is only at the jaws of death that we see who we are.

Right now I can look in the mirror and see so many things that there is no answer, I am not limitless or indefinable, I am definable and limited, but I cannot define myself that way as my perspective is skewed. Thus I will require an outside perspective, but since the outside perspective is also limited, the best way to gain an insight into who I am is to ask the question to as many people as possible, and then find the themes that are most recurring, as they will likely be close to what I am. This can only be achieved through lengthy observation, as the true self is able to hide itself quite well if it chooses to.

Now, that's enough from my brain for today, it isn't currently equipped to deal with matters of thought, so it's a bit fuzzy, but I'm sure you'll manage. :)

[wilbur lim]

Many thanks,blaze of glory.
Thy perspective is productive.

[Dinglingzi]

i think people are mostly with multiple personality,turn into different kinds of modes according to what mood they are in and what kind of people they are dealing with.sometimes you are mistakenly embarrassed or upset for being some kind that you are actually not,but it happens to everyone under certain circumstances.so no matter what it is, be good and kind!
:-)

[kelby_lake]

I feel annoyed that I can't refer to all the obscure/classic books I've read because my friends won't have heard of them :(

[Dinglingzi]

I feel annoyed that I can't refer to all the obscure/classic books I've read because my friends won't have heard of them :(

ehhhhhh.....could that be a big problem????:idea:

[Dori]

I feel annoyed that I can't refer to all the obscure/classic books I've read because my friends won't have heard of them :(

Umm...I do it all they time and even when they don't understand. :D

[Within Me]

Unfortunately people around us dont have a vision, they can see what is "touchable" only, they dont have depth and can`t see within a person. I`m a mask in my everyday`s life and that`s because people cannot understand or see the real me which annoys me to the extent that i`ve stopped being myself when i`m around with people. And i came to the point that they dont really deserve to see the real me,because to me, the real me is sacred and that`s not out of "selfishness" that`s because i`m proud that i have a "self" i`m living to have a good self ,, and not everybody can easily go within me and see what i have inside. Plus , I do have sacred hours which are dedicated for my real self to reveal ...

[blazeofglory]

I take nature as a guide for me. Nature is a great teacher. We through our civilization are distancing oursleves from nature and now we have created the China wall between nature and oursleves. We have all kinds of things in our houses, but things of nature.

Nature to me is not a symbol, and nature in substance and in complete nakedness. Go and observe things in nature and how natural beings behave instinctively. They eat if they are hungry and we eat even if we are not hungry thinking that our bodies need diets or energies. We sleep thinking that sleeping is necessary for being healthy, but in nature beings do things when their instincts tell them to do. In the wilderness there is perfect balance. At times human beings enter the wilderness and perturb natural phenomena and creating breaks in natural regulations and harmonies.

In fact man is also part of or real nature.

Really happiness happens only if can unmask ourselves and give up pretending to be what we are not.

[Bakiryu]

But wearing a mask is a part of human nature, only until you accept this you can be who you are. How do you know if you are being who you are not if you don't explore the nature of that person you are being for this time being?

[blazeofglory]

Observe your self in complete bareness, remove your dresses of civilizations and pretensions, your interpretations of the world based on what you read or hear of others. Follow your real desires and your instincts you will meet with your real self not your pretentious self.

You wear a mask of society, their values, their beliefs and you hide your real self, and once you touch your real self and feel how different and lively you will feel, the primeval life forces that is called pure living not the way you live artificially.

[Bakiryu]

Observe your self in complete bareness, remove your dresses of civilizations and pretensions, your interpretations of the world based on what you read or hear of others. Follow your real desires and your instincts you will meet with your real self not your pretentious self.

You wear a mask of society, their values, their beliefs and you hide your real self, and once you touch your real self and feel how different and lively you will feel, the primeval life forces that is called pure living not the way you live artificially.

But alas! we live in society and we are society, no being can exist in complete isolation for all that society has taught him/her still resides in his/her unconscious mind. it takes a strong belief on the self to survive whole in society, removing yourself from it is only escapist weakness.

How can you know your real desires if you have not tested your limits?

How can you know this self you speak of if we have been someone else entirely to different people since birth. For we are the mask and the mask is us.

[blazeofglory]

In fact unmasking demands of you something really big, and of course degrees of renunciation, and if you really wan to present yourself the person you are, unmasked, your plain self, not the one you are known to be, labeled or branded you need to make a series of sacrifices, and in doing so you must underpin yourself by the principle you live by, and if you choose to compromise on things with your society you can not be truly yourself, and you will be a refection or an image of others.

Speaking plainly, prior to your birth you are classified, and you belonged to a herd or a pack and you are not what you really are, something the world can not see. You are to the world just a bundle of ideas, beliefs, and systems, societies. But the real you are above all these labels or tags. You are not this, and you are not that. And having said this I may be confusing you more. But it is natural that I am taking off course, and I am speaking here about unmasking and baring yourself.

You are not a Christian and nor a Hindu, and many Gurus say so yet you are still not convinced and you follow a particular pattern of living, a particular ideology or dogma and you failed to something beyond all these coats or coverings to arrive at something that is very real, lively or full of life. Bared, uncovered, un-veneered, unprotected you are your real self. The quintessence of you is not a society of customs, mores, traditions, customs, and schools of thought.

Your relationship with man is not necessarily through a system and follow your instincts and the instincts that pulled your father to your mother, and the instincts that made you struggle for survival or set you in search of food.

Present yourself not with preset ideas, and conditions, and present yourself as the person you are unpretentiously.

Maybe what I really want to say can not be translated into what I put forth through words, and keep aside these words, close your eyes for a while and meditate deeply. You will arrive at what I really want to communicate to you.