A personal blog by a graying (mostly Anglo with light African-American roots) gay left leaning married college-educated Buddhist Baha'i BBC/NPR-listening Professor Emeritus now following the Dharma in Minas Gerais, Brasil.
To become self-aware, then, is to realize that each of us is what the whole universe—our true body—is doing, right here and now. Could there be a better homecoming?
“Ultimately the grabbing at enlightenment is a trap. Yet you aim there and you yearn. Finally you realize that you can’t grab. You develop a certain type of patience as you come into timelessness – whats the rush? Where are you going anyway?"
Holding our pain with loving awareness is one of the most powerful gifts we can give ourselves. It is an act of profound courage. Instead of running from suffering, we meet it with presence.
