Radically normal

When we die, we cease to identify ourselves with a body. We die before we die when we realize we are not the body. Then we are nobodies, the walking dead, absolutely fearless, radically normal.

How to stop thinking (4)

No, we cannot stop thinking. Yes, we can stop identifying ourselves with our thoughts. The process of dis-identification begins when we check ourselves for gullibility, when we stop believing every thought we think.

Flesh tents

There’s a commonly held belief that we’re merely bodies. What an extraordinary diminishment!

Where the troubles start

They say we come into the world with nothing. This overlooks the fact that we come with a body. Thereafter emerges a belief that we are the body. Here’s where the trouble starts.

Giving it up

We do not easily surrender our identifications. In hockey circles, they say that a professional player dies twice—once when he can’t play the sport anymore and again when he’s boxed and buried.