Do I actually have a gender, ethnicity, Sexual orientation or nationality?

[sayak83]

That just comes to the gunas and the passions of the being who's acting.
Doesn't mean the labels of today.
For instance, my passion is to work for the welfare of certain group of people.
I might or might not be related to them in anyway, but because I feel that they need to be helped, I will.
This doesn't include a label though, I think. But on the aspects of what I m given.

Your actions and passions determine your identity, not what you were slapped with from birth. This is agree with, completely. Labeling Einstein as a great scientist, or Wordsworth as a great poet is not something that anybody can have any objection about.

 

[Tomorrows_Child]

I'm an amorphous blob with no discernible features or identity what so ever.

 

[Pudding]

It's been a few weeks since I learnt that all living beings are fragments of the supreme unmanifested truth, which is the true self.
But if the self is unmanifested within the material body, do gender, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, color, status, nationality, etc should be valid identifiers for me?

How can you verify whether gender, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, color, status, nationality, etc, doesn't present in the true self which is unmanifested within the material body?

I do not hate any of the aspects of my body but neither m I attached to these labels anymore.

You are not attached to these labels anymore, but do you still using these labels in this world when communicating with people?
What does "not attached to these labels" actually means?
What action you have to do to make yourself qualify to say "you are not attached to these labels anymore"?

 

[Subhankar Zac]

I'm an amorphous blob with no discernible features or identity what so ever.

Yes, in all aspects.

 

[gnomon]

It's been a few weeks since I learnt that all living beings are fragments of the supreme unmanifested truth, which is the true self.
But if the self is unmanifested within the material body, do gender, sexual orientation, race, ethnicity, color, status, nationality, etc should be valid identifiers for me?
I do not hate any of the aspects of my body but neither m I attached to these labels anymore.

I hate to break it to you.

You still live by labels.

It's a fact of life.

You actually labeled yourself in regards to the self is unmanifested. A label in itself.

So........what now?

 

[Subhankar Zac]

You actually labeled yourself in regards to the self is unmanifested. A label in itself.

Was that supposed to make any sense? When did consciousness become a label?

 

[Tomorrows_Child]

Was that supposed to make any sense? When did consciousness become a label?

You are labeling your self as conscious.

 

[gnomon]

No....we label ourselves based upon our sexual identity.

Our gender. Our faith or lack thereof. Our heritage. We label ourselves based upon the foods we choose to eat.

And is consciousness a label? I suggest asking the dead.

Then there are the labels of being good or nice. Such as helping people.