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.
That which knows and that which is known are one and the same.
Choose an object right in front of you. Do you experience the knowing of the object as something separate from the object itself? Are there two different experiences, or only one?
If you begin to think about it, it may seem that there is a difference between the object and the awareness of the object. Look more carefully: are there really two separate entities here, or just one experience?
A practitioner reflects on a private interview with her Zen teacher wherein she learns more about dropping her own self conception and connecting with expansiveness.
In an article about sunyata, writer and researcher Simeon Mihaylov explains the perspective of “no subject-ojbect” in Yogacara, the mind-only school of Mahayana Buddhism.
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