Do you ever recognize yourself as in a costume, not in your clothes, but in your actual skin, your body? Seriously, what if the you, you think you are is more than just your body, the person you see in the mirror every morning. Well, it is. Our life struggle/suffering begins when we fool ourselves into believing, we are the costume. Just like this young man in the banana suit, he has become so involved with his false identity, that he actually sees himself as being reunited with his family. Wink wink.
When our lives become dictated by the emotions we feel, we are attached to this false reality; seeing ourselves as limited in the tiny box we call our head; this could be a definition of the ego. It’s the same insanity as identifying personally with your car. It gets you from point A to point B, just as your body does, but it would be silly to identify with it (even though some do, lol). Your body is just that, a vehicle, which is used by the greater “I Am.” Can you see this deeply? Can you see the nature of your being as being beyond your body, if so, investigate further. How are you limiting yourself by identifying with this insanity? Who are you really, beyond the banana?
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