The Everyday Sublime | July 6, 2014
To experience the everyday sublime one
needs to dismantle piece by piece the perceptual conditioning that
insists on seeing oneself and the world as essentially comfortable,
permanent, solid, and mine. It means to embrace suffering and conflict,
rather than to shy away from them, to cultivate the radical attention
(yonisomanasikara) that contemplates the tragic, changing, empty, and
impersonal dimensions of life, rather than succumbing to fantasies of
self-glorification or self-loathing.
—Stephen Batchelor, “The Everyday Sublime”
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