tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10694316.post8421214512047644736..comments2024-03-27T20:10:46.984-07:00Comments on The Rambling Taoist: Self-Improvement IIIThe Rambling Taoisthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/04730292897416827840noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10694316.post-38807163577043109442011-12-15T11:58:12.016-08:002011-12-15T11:58:12.016-08:00The words no-self, for me, seem somewhat misleadin...The words no-self, for me, seem somewhat misleading to my experiences in life. I use these words to reference a direction a person's life can move towards but not necessarily a determined target that needs to be attained. I do resonate with your two-way approach Scott.Shawn Tedrowhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12215744571675327833noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10694316.post-27810316723766183012011-12-15T09:03:15.421-08:002011-12-15T09:03:15.421-08:00"We tend to have an all-or-nothing, black or ..."We tend to have an all-or-nothing, black or white, attitude to self versus no-self. We are either the one or the other."<br /><br />I suppose --yes, I do-- that we are both, not either/or. Like yin/yang, in a particular Chinese way one is 50 percent self, 50 percent no-self. While I am alive, living in this body with the sensory apparatus that lets me perceive the material world, I have a kind of self; when I am dead, goodbye to that self, hello to something different. I think the practices --should one choose to do them--are to prepare us for that eventuality.baroness radonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14593108634484542286noreply@blogger.com