Did you notice how some labels change in a matter of minutes, hours, like sad, busy, excited, hungry, cold, and some labels keep for longer like daughter or son, for example, until our parents die. Then these labels not used that often, maybe even never again. Did you ever noticed that along all the changing labels through days, months, years, there is always something unchangeable, prior to any labels, the one that actually can notice this very changes? The pure being that simply exist. Now. The existence itself. The very fact of existence of you. Prior to the labels, short lived or long lived - any of them! They do not describe you fully. Each of them describe only tiny part of you, maybe some describe a bigger part of you, but not one of them describe who you actually are.
It is easy to know who you are. Look at any label that you attach to yourself and see that it is temporary. Even the most stickiest ones: "female" and "male" dissolve with going to sleep. See what never dissolves, what silently exists, holds any labels. Notice this pure beingness you are. This is simple and hidden truth of oneself, but we are so overloaded with labels, they hang on us like the drowning man hangs on the rescuer - with a grip of such a strength that the drowning man can easily take the rescuer down with himself. This is a strength of the labels, identities. They take us to the depth of the illusionary world and make us believe it is real. But still, it is also imaginary strength, and any moment we can lift the label off and see the truth of us.
The label will stick again in no time, this is the mystery of this world, but now we know. We know who we are when we are naked, we know exactly who we are, and what are those sticky words, names, descriptions are. They will never fool us to take them as truth of us. They just mostly here for a ride with us, short or lifelong ride, but it's a ride! Enjoy the ride, and know you are not stuck in it for eternity.
