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.
Write out a list of the roles and identities you currently hold. Notice how each one arises from circumstances, relationships, place, or time as they are all conditional. See how every identity appears and disappears depending on the situation.
Can you regard them as seasonal clothes you wear as needed? Then ask quietly: What am I without these clothes? When roles fall away, do you ever vanish? Or is there something here that remains present, quiet and alive?
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