Jagad Guru Chris Butler - Quotes | There Is Nothing Wrong With Differences In External Appearance

Each body has a multitude of different labels and characteristics. This in itself isn’t bad; just like it is not bad for people to wear different-colored clothes. What is bad is that due to identifying the body as the self, we wrongly consider the person to be the labels that are on his body.

Jagad Guru Chris Butler - Science of Identity Foundation

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Being unable to see past the labels to the person himself, we end up in a world of barriers and conflict.

Jagad Guru Chris Butler - Science of Identity Foundation

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Your behavior toward another person should not be based upon his external skin color or whatever, but on his behavior.

Siddhaswarupananda

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There’s nothing wrong with differences in external appearance, labels, and external function. In fact, such differences are necessary and valuable. The problem arises when we falsely identify with our bodies and all the bodily labels and functions.

Jagad Guru Chris Butler - Science of Identity Foundation