I am nothing

From Lovingkindness by Sharon Salzberg.

In the Buddhist cosmology, one of the realms of being is that of “hungry ghosts.” These are beings with immense bodies but pinhole mouths, so that they are continually driven by unsatisfied desire. When someone once asked Vietnamese Buddhist teacher Thich Nhat Hanh what life is like in the realm of hungry ghosts, he answered with one word: “America.” The culture we live in, the one that has conditioned us, does not prize yielding, giving up, letting go, relinquishing.

Post a comment

Name: (required)

Email Address: (will not be published) (required)

URL:

Comments: