You're More Than You're Cracked Up to Be
When self-centeredness comes to an end, we discover not that our “self†has
ceased to exist but that the self is not what we thought. The self is no longer
an inner sanctum of private experience or a narrow set of personal needs or
expectations. Our world is our self, rather than our self being our world. Rather
than constantly trying to impose our self onto life, we realize that all of life
is who and what we are. Or, as Dogen put it: “To carry the self forward and
illuminate myriad things is delusion. That the myriad things come forth and
illuminate the self is awakening.
â€"Barry Magid, from Ordinary Mind (Wisdom Publications)
