What is your opinion on the human need to identify their essence with permanent fixed....?

Question

ideas, material objects, relationships etc.

And by doing this creating an identity that is very fragile and prone to bouts of anger and violence because his/her identity is based on the foundations fear/uneasiness and when those ideas or objects are threatened, he/she fears his/her soul/identity will collapse as well. All this in order to desperately hold onto that which gives him/her some firm ground in a universe of constant movement and uniquness?

sorry for the bad use of English.

Answer 1

Refer your other question, and my answer thereto.  If you have permanently fixed ideas, I pity you.  Life will teach you that nothing, really nothing, is fixed or permanent.

Peace.

Answer 2

I want a banana -- it is not a unique need.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a15KgyXBX...

Answer 3

what is essence?  that is meaningless to me

Answer 4

That's where religion comes in. If we put our faith in friends, the stock market, our RRSP (retirement savings plans), etc., none of these things is permanent. Our friends can die, move away, or leave us for other friends. The stock market can collapse, and we may die before we get to retire and use all that money we've saved up.

Having a connection to something, God or a Higher Power which is a fixed and constant point is all there is.

By the way, your ideas are explained better, your spelling and syntax are better than 995% of the rest of us here on this site.

Answer 5

We are genetically predisposed to overly identify with our emotional electrochemistry - for survival purposes - during early life.  These memories of threat/safety are stored as subconscious beliefs about self and the world of others.

This conditioned ego identity is purely defensive, but its beliefs subsequently control perception, feelings, thoughts and reactions throughout life - as though the original narrow environment were the whole world.  Children who are deprived crave what they do not have and learn to associated getting certain things as safe or pleasurable.  Their feelings become their identity.

This is NOT their essential nature, but that is a difficult thing to convince them of.  Their authentic Self - rather than these programmed beliefs - can only be reunited with by observing and giving up (transcending) their indoctrination which is also stored in the entire brain/body electrochemical patterns.  Not an easy task.  Few people have the tenacity or motivation to do so.

But, they should.  Reality mirrors the contents of consciousness in all its conflictedness.  Change your mind, change your life.

Answer 6

i agree with the first answerer, ideas are neither fixed nor permanent. i can see the trouble with identifying too much with material objects or superficial relationships. but ideas transcend  these things, in my mind. they're really the only thing that can't truly be extinguished. relationships certainly can be deep and meaningful too.

Answer 7

And by doing this creating an identity that is very fragile and prone to bouts of anger and violence...

as well as insecurity, dissatisfaction and for all intents and purposes is easily captured by circumstances......a fully realized human being, always has a sense of self, and blends into environments by choice, not design....ego doesn't rise it's ugly head...it has no need too...

See, you become something to offer to the world rather than another need to be fed...

You have it right...in other words...