Only the personal identity is ever negative. As long as you remain as the awareness of it you'll be forever pure and forever free. You will be beyond "good" or "bad". That is the "goal", otherwise you simply don't see reality clearly. Many things will upset you, many things will make you confused. But what is upset, what is confused, is not you (the awareness) but only the personal identity we believe ourselves to be. That is why we want to stop identifying as the personal identity, so we can live as what we TRULY are, pure unconditioned awareness.
The body-mind is useful for experiencing in this reality. You can use it, you can enjoy it, the only thing that is a problem is when you identify as it. When you identify as it, you believe you are the body-mind, and you forget that actually you are the awareness in which it appears and is perceived. When you "forget" you are the awareness through identification with the personal identity, life appears personal, depression, anxiety, doubt, fear all appear. When you remember that you are the pure awareness, life is impersonal, there is a perfume of joy, peace, love, compassion.
- Sebastian Key
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