"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.
–Barry Magid, from Ordinary Mind (Wisdom Publications)"
“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.
–Barry Magid, from Ordinary Mind (Wisdom Publications)"
