This week I've attempted to write something simple 🤞 about the Buddhist idea of 'not-self' and the insight that comes when we see through our 'self-view'.
Daughters and their children applying for Austrian Citizenship to once again become European. Very much a question of self and not-self. Documents required form their own collage. I will try to use copies of them to make a very real collage of my mother’s life 1909-1989. Some very real emotions becoming reunited with some part of one’s origins/DNA/heritage.
Nothing wrong with this conversation from where I’m sitting (in a sunny garden having a rest after having dealt with the remains of my beautiful bush collapsing in a heap on the floor under the weight of its abundant blossominess)! We were talking about insight and no-self in my online chapter this morning, and your piece seems to be continuing and enhancing our conversation in a serendipitous way. I hope you don’t mind me having shared your piece with my chapter friends, to be further pondered?
Daughters and their children applying for Austrian Citizenship to once again become European. Very much a question of self and not-self. Documents required form their own collage. I will try to use copies of them to make a very real collage of my mother’s life 1909-1989. Some very real emotions becoming reunited with some part of one’s origins/DNA/heritage.
How do I add an image?
Hi Henry,
I've been on retreat and just found lots of collages in 'chat' including yours, so well done for sorting that out! 😁
Nothing wrong with this conversation from where I’m sitting (in a sunny garden having a rest after having dealt with the remains of my beautiful bush collapsing in a heap on the floor under the weight of its abundant blossominess)! We were talking about insight and no-self in my online chapter this morning, and your piece seems to be continuing and enhancing our conversation in a serendipitous way. I hope you don’t mind me having shared your piece with my chapter friends, to be further pondered?
Of course not. Share away! Glad to be part of the conversation