If you grew up in a middle-class household in this country, you'll be hard pressed to avoid identifying with what's onstage.
On this view the teaching of non-self is not a bit of metaphysics, just some practical advice to the effect that we should avoid identifying with things that are transitory and so bound to yield dissatisfaction.
He doesn't have any homework to do and he doesn't have studiously to avoid identifying with youth culture to assert his individuality among friends who cannot get enough of it.
Although earlier work suggests social smokers rarely regard themselves as smokers [ 28, 34, 58], and so exempt themselves from health risks, our participants could not avoid identifying with social warnings, which they considered highly relevant to all young people.
"I think it's an interesting homecoming for somebody who, for political reasons at least, avoided identifying himself with Yale," said one classmate who did not want his name linked to any mention of Mr. Bush's visit to Yale, because university tradition forbids advance acknowledgment that someone is getting an honorary degree or speaking at Yale's commencement.
As examples, exertional breathlessness was included to identify workers with chronic HP (without work-related respiratory symptoms), and the recurrent flu-like symptom category was modified to avoid identifying workers with humidifier fever.
The woman, whose name has been withheld to avoid identifying Zephany, listened with a bowed head and averted eyes.
Balanchine's originality, however, is to avoid identifying a specific couple consistently with either personality.
To avoid identifying <Hesperus is beautiful> with <Phosphorus is beautiful>, the relevant inputs cannot simply be Hesperus (Phosphorus) and the property of being beautiful.
The restriction avoids identifying ruptures in stable courses with permanently high values.
