How do I stop identifying with an observed authority?

[BlueOak]

How do I stop identifying with an observed authority? So that I no longer mind when it changes?

The authority or form it is in itself isn't important, only that I take authority, system, and structure into my identity, and then respond adversely when it changes. This can be a remote authority like watching a foreign government, it can be a regulatory body I operate under changing, a new manager at a job or company taking over a business I work for, it can be a conversation being censored. Finding out a system I am used to has altered. The structure I perceived or observed changing.

I would like to stop doing this as much, because it's a common thread of suffering I bring on myself. I also believe it's holding back my personal and spiritual development.

Thanks for any thoughts.

[rachMiel]

@BlueOak Krishnamurti said tons about the danger of being dependent on authority, external and internal. Chapter 1 dives right in: https://ia800405.us.archive.org/2/items/FreedomFromTheKnownJ.Krishnamurti/Freedom From The Known - J. Krishnamurti.pdf 

[BlueOak]

I think its the method and structure I am addicted to, the lingering enjoyment of resistance to a perceived 'other' external authority, and the analysis of it all. Running through a logical loop that is comfortable and certain, learning its ins and outs, then identifying what I perceive are external authorities that are trying to 'change' something and feeling good when they are stopped. I can swap one authority with another on a whim by focusing on something else, and I do it a dozen times a day. But when the perceived method I was observing alters, I resist it, because in taking the time to understand it I've taken that system or method as part of myself, which means things that are not 'it' are viewed in the moment as not 'me'.

I struggle with perceiving my relationship with authority as clearly as I'd like.

Thanks, I am reading through the book and i'll see what comes. @rachMiel

Edited November 9, 2023 by BlueOak

[rachMiel]

1 hour ago, BlueOak said:

I am reading through the book

Beware: Take Krishnamurti to heart and it'll change yer life!