There's a shame and a kind of identity crisis that many people have when they're not working.
We think,
If I'm not working,
If I'm not being productive right now,
Who am I?
Or if I'm not suffering right now,
I should be ashamed because there's so much suffering in the world.
If I'm relaxed,
I'm ashamed because I'm lazy.
If I'm not suffering,
I'm ashamed that other people are suffering.
If I'm not killing myself working,
Do I even have value?
Do I even have a place?
And we need to look at this shame.
Shame is what arises.
Something you do now.
Would not have been approved by some older system.
Shame is not specific.
It's often not tied to anything specific.
It's just this feeling we get that something is off about us.
And it's not.
Telling you to stop when you have shame Don't take it as a sign that you need to stop what you're doing.
What that shame means.
Is probably.
That you're actually moving in a direction of your heart or a direction that matters to you.
But it's something that your great,
Great,
Great,
Great grandparents may not have approved of.
They might have had that point of view that helped them survive,
That every single second,
I need to work.
Every single second,
I need to be productive.
And here,
Religion is a two-edged sword.
Religion,
In some of these cases,
Really does not help.
Sometimes the goal of religion was spirituality,
But sometimes the world goal of religion was just controlling society and the social order.
And there were times where people always working every second,
Having no autonomy and having no independent thoughts was useful to the higher socio-political order.
And yet we inherit that in our DNA as shame.
So when you experience shame.
What it might mean is that you're actually on the right track.
To be an authentic,
Independent,
Free person.
Happy individual.
