A personal blog by a graying (mostly Anglo with light African-American roots) gay left leaning liberal progressive married college-educated Buddhist Baha'i BBC/NPR-listening Professor Emeritus now following the Dharma in Minas Gerais, Brasil.
Seeing
things as equally present . . . is to cease seeing things through the
lens of their meaning and usefulness to myself. And when we are able to
do this, it makes room for the world around us to come forward, with
extraordinary vividness. Birds sing, the wall meets the floor, and even a
mound of stinking garbage shimmers in the sunlight.
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