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.
Notice
that everything you usually take yourself to be is an object that can
be observed. You can describe your body, your feelings, your thoughts,
and your memories. If they can be known, they cannot be your true self,
because their very existence implies a subject that knows them.
Exploring
Zen’s Three Tenets, Roshi Wendy Egyoku Nakao explains how
not-knowing—in addition to bearing witness and taking action—can help us
stay centered.
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