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You Aren’t What’s Changing, You Are What Remains the Same
In Kafka’s story “The Metamorphosis,” first published in 1915, the protagonist’s body turns into a cockroach. But that’s not the point. The point is that nothing else changes. The protagonist (and...
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Good Question Answers Itself
Impossible to open your mouth without stepping on the toes of the paradox! Mind’s footprints are everywhere as mind follows its own tracks, leading, following, misleading, rebelling, seeking ever new...
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No “I” in the Outcome
Eugen Herrigel, the author of a 1948 classic, Zen in the Art of Archery, offers a thought of dis-identification from the outcome of one’s performance: “The archer ceases to be conscious of himself as...
View ArticleSelf-Definition is Self-Limitation
The question of “What am I?” may lead to self-objectification or to self-liberation. Which path would you take? How would you answer it? By saying something along the lines of “I am this” or “I am...
View ArticleIncomparably Self-Same
Ludwig Wittgenstein, proposition 5.5303: "Roughly speaking: to say of two things that they are identical is nonsense, and to say of one thing that it is identical with itself is to say nothing."...
View ArticleInfo Poisoning & Info Detox
In 1951 Dr. George Harding, with the National Capital Parks in Washington, looked in amazement at a lotus sprout. The lotus seed that had just come to life was a “relic of one of the early crops of...
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Identity Theft & Identity Giveaway
Identity theft is when someone identifies themselves as you and steals your resources. Identity giveaway is when you identify as someone else and surrender your sense of individuality and uniqueness....
View Article3 "I-s" of Ego-Self: Identification, Information, Impermanence
The Ego-Self: Identification, Information, Impermanence Ego is not an anatomical structure. It’s not something that you will see on an X-ray. Ego is an informational structure. That’s what the term...
View ArticleThe 10th Mirror
In getting to know your essential self (in dis-identifying from what we are not), there are ten mirrors of identity to look into: The Mirror of Reflection (physical mirror) The Mirror of Others’ Minds,...
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