[...] So when a notion of self arises, sit quietly and contemplate it. Is there a real basis inside or outside your body now? Your body with hair and skin is just inherited from your father and mother (*). From beginning to end a drop of blood or lymph is empty. So none of these are self. What about mind, thought, awareness, and knowledge? Or the breath going in and out, which ties the lifetime together: what is it after all? None of these are self either. How could you be attached to any of them? Deluded people are attached to them. Enlightened people are free of them.
in Moon in a dewdrop - writings of Zen master Dogen
Perceber não é difícil. Grocar é difícil.
(*) Impossível de evitar associar isto à recente leitura do Genoma.
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