DHARMA SPRING

Dropping Habits of Identity & Self

July 24, 2020 Andrew Palmer
DHARMA SPRING
Dropping Habits of Identity & Self
Show Notes

Ah, the perennial entangled and entangling territory of identity and self. Zen practice is good at helping us release and get untangled from such territories for a time, as well as noticing our habits of grabbing onto and entering once more into them. But then there’s the issue of breaking those habits completely, which is indeed no simple undertaking. Much of the time, we get more caught up in the process of exchanging a bad habit for a good one – the self-improvement project; other times we attempt to eschew identity and self altogether, but that’s just the same old habit in reverse – taking on the identity of non-identity. But there is a way to break the identity-and-self habit and encounter a spacious, lasting freedom, within and among it all, through meeting rather than avoiding, welcoming rather than rejecting, and being oneself truly and completely, more so than ever before.

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