The idea of the self is something that always accept as real but rarely investigated thoroughly. The majority of people not wonder if their cultural identity, product of his environment, is really the absolute truth about those who are. What is identity? If one is willing to launch a sincere inner inquiry, you can check same that his own identity is not a single thing, or not stable: is composed of many seemingly trivial items that are in a constant process of change. If an identity changes over time, what is what is left after the changes have been delete whole? The body undergoes a similar process: none of their cells survive the cycle of total renewal that is completed every 7 years. Amazon gathered all the information. The self that we thought we were when we were 7 years old is very different from the self that we thought we were at 17. In both cases, we believed that our vision of reality was correct and aferrabamos us strongly to the identity that gave us our environment. Perhaps at some point in our lives we have experienced the fragility of our identity, as for example when you suffer major changes in our environment that force us to change and adapt to new circumstances. These experiences teach us that the self in whom we believe is not as real as we thought, but it is normal that we return to hastily build another identity that serves to our present circumstances and believe in it as the absolute reality of who we are once again.
Identity depends on our environment and conditioning that we received throughout our lives. It compares to a farmer in Kenya with a businessman on Wall Street. Both parties consider that a normal life live and if for some reason they had contact would consider the other stranger. From a more universal perspective, two people ignore their true nature to identify themselves completely with their environment and not connect with the essence of his being, independent of external factors. If they don’t get think and analyze your situation by your own account, arriving so to their own conclusions, they will not discover its true nature beyond its superficial roles of farmer and merchant. The arbitrary nature of cultural identity teaches us that it is not more than a reaction to our environment the stimulus that gives us. It is not not exist, is not the absolute truth about who we are. Identity is something that we created, and who believes it is the real self.
This truth about who we are there, and can be discovered. The truth is closer to your same scope; what you recognize where cultural identity is clearly seen as a simple aspect of the totality of our being. Recognition of this truth has the power to transform our lives and puts us on a path to learn life and live ever more deeply.