Sharing the Wealth

This is a fundamental flaw that creeps into some Buddhist intellectualization. My experience has been that one does not give up or away the “self”. But rather that “self” is realized as it truly is.

And while that realization, that true “self,” may be beyond the breadth and scope of one’s previous understandings and philosophies of “self”, it is still not an elimination of self.

It has been my experience that it is seeing into the very nature of self itself, and in that unfathomable understanding of truth, one is able to realize the manifestation of the self that we live and breath as, to be.

One’s realization of the self that we live and breath as is tempered with this profound realized view.

And in this view the cares and troubles, the joys and pleasures of the physical self that we must endure as physical beings, is seen as the precious flowers that spring up from the manure of life – not one’s true self, but the experience of reality that one finds while one is steeped in the truth of it.