![]() It doesn’t matter which political party or ideology is doing the complaining, we’re all doing it. Now with the internet and social media, the ionosphere is virtually humming with our complaints. Like words for snow, we’ve got dozens of ways to say “complain”: Imagine the vast cacophonous jumble of all the complaints being felt, thought, written, and spoken right now by people around the world - what a sound that would be! Enough to make the angels cover their ears and fly away! ![]() Yet even these short reprieves can serve to relax the habit of situating ourselves as a separate “self.” As the saying goes, “Little moments, many times.” When you can relax knowingly in the present moment you interrupt the habit of assembling a “self” - as I wrote, “You’re just here, without being you.”Īdmittedly, our recognition in these clear moments usually only lasts a few seconds before we assume our identity again as the “me” who narrates its thought-stream and who may feel beleaguered by its litany of emotions and old traumas. ![]() In a recent Notes from the Open Path (“Selflessness,” May, 2022) I suggested a simple practice for recognizing our innate absence of self: Simply be present, right now. As Ibn ‘Arabi points out, “How can a thing that does not exist try to get rid of its existence? How could a thing that is not, become nothing?”
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