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.
What am I if I stop identifying with any object at all, whether it is nationality, race, religion, political ideology, or anything else? Whatever answer appears is simply another object in awareness. It cannot be what you are, because you are the one who is aware of the object.
Stay gently with this recognition. What remains when the mind no longer clings to anything that can be observed?
In a story about storage units and a fire evacuation, writer Christopher Rivas reflects on how things reinforce our sense of self and why we cling so tightly.
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