Following along with the Buddhist themes of the album, we come to another core concept, anatman; no self.
"You are not mine, I am not yours" there is no such thing as a possession, even the computer you're reading this on is just a collection of materials, there's no chemical justification for it belonging to you. The same goes for identity, you don't belong to your identity, and your identity doesn't belong to you. If the circumstances you were born into were different, and the things you saw changed, would you still have the same identity? I don't think so.
"Please do not judge me" Our identities are born from our judgement of what we do, how we act, etc. Learning to let go of identity requires you to stop judging yourself and others, to break the psychological walls between a tree and a cloud and you and your friends and people you've never met. They are all existent, so they all become the same.
Following along with the Buddhist themes of the album, we come to another core concept, anatman; no self.
"You are not mine, I am not yours" there is no such thing as a possession, even the computer you're reading this on is just a collection of materials, there's no chemical justification for it belonging to you. The same goes for identity, you don't belong to your identity, and your identity doesn't belong to you. If the circumstances you were born into were different, and the things you saw changed, would you still have the same identity? I don't think so. "Please do not judge me" Our identities are born from our judgement of what we do, how we act, etc. Learning to let go of identity requires you to stop judging yourself and others, to break the psychological walls between a tree and a cloud and you and your friends and people you've never met. They are all existent, so they all become the same.