Teisho: Sean Tetsudo Murphy: Demystifying No-Self

Zen teacher, meditation professor, and author Sean Murphy invites us to consider our illusion of separateness, the notion that we have a sense of self as an independent creature within the world. Much of our suffering – loneliness, feeling unsafe, disconnection, anxiety, difficulty with others – may emerge from this sense of being fundamentally separate. Rather, our true reality is one as an integral part of the universe. He implies that we cannot remove ourselves from the universe, as there is no beginning and no end. Our matter is completely inseparable from the cosmos, the stars, the earth, each other, and all beings. What we are composed of has existed for billions of years and will continue to exist in some form. Our ecological interdependence speaks to the Buddhist principle of no-self, no separateness, fully interconnected, fully inseparable.

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