This is one concept i use a lot in my cogitations and i'll explain it today
The condition of conscious identifiaction is when we identify with an idea , a sensation, a desire sufficiently to make it self evident.
In its more gross form, this exhibits as craving, as in the craving of a child for a chocolate. He wants it and theres nothing on earth that can prove this false to him. I know from subjective experience how craving feels.
In adults it has many manisfestation. An adult's honour is a pretty self evident thing for him, he needs no proof for it.
So there are many ways in which we identify. For the majority of us, our desires, our fears, our social identity are all selfevident. Therefore, there are things we dearly want and things we'd want to avoid at any cost.
These identifications may change too. Someone desires a particular outcome at one point and may desire the opposite at another.
The spiritual life aims at giving us charge of these identifications. The classical buddhist and advaitist traditions aim at breaking all identities that we preserve and wish to preserve.
It is an open question for me to determine the desirability of identification and to see if some identities are more desirable than others.
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