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.
It’s important to understand “self” in the term “not-self” as meaning any possible way of defining your self, because no matter what “I” or “my” you come up with, you’re going to cling to it. The Buddha wants to help you to put an end to every possible way of clinging.
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