A personal blog by a graying (mostly Anglo with light African-American roots) gay left leaning married college-educated Buddhist Baha'i BBC/NPR-listening Professor Emeritus now following the Dharma in Minas Gerais, Brasil.
If the space inside any form and the space outside it are continuous, there are no absolute borders between things. So when we grasp, we touch only space.
There’s a Japanese saying: “Darkness lies at the foot of the lighthouse”—meaning that by focusing too much on the distance, we may fail to illuminate what’s right at our feet.
Shoukei Matsumoto, “The Mindfulness of Tidying Up”
