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.
When we look through the lens of what we already know, the world seems fragmented. There appear to be billions of separate people and countless unrelated objects. What happens when we look through the eye of not knowing instead? Does the world begin to feel like an undivided, mysterious presence? If you sense even a hint of this presence, notice how, in that moment, there is no inner conflict. This presence, without struggle, is what people call “peace.”
Retreat leader Fabrice Desmarescaux offers a contemplation on this posture of humility: a gesture of power, not weakness, that keeps us open to fresh perspectives.
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