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.
In Tibetan, one of the main terms for renunciation—nge jung— can be translated as “the determination to be free.” “Free of what?” you might wonder. Free of the suffering that comes when we depend on circumstances outside our control to be content—like a job, another person, or a certain status.
Susan Kaiser Greenland, “Letting Go and Letting Be”
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