Forget Who You Are

The Buddha

Or who you think you are.

According to the Buddha, our core problem is clinging, and we tend to cling to nothing so fiercely as our myth of self, as a friend likes to put it. “Myth” being the operative word here.

Our sense of self, like most everything we perceive, rests on our thoughts, which are wispy and ephemeral, as we learn from our meditation practice. We like to think of ourselves as solid and…