Infinitely Expanding Self

When the Buddha spoke of selflessness and the impersonal, he never said we don’t have a self, only that we have no independent, permanent self that separates us. By allowing identity to gently expand, the boundaries between self and other thin out and disappear. This leads us to the core of the Buddha’s teaching. Because of the evolution of human consciousness, this practice of expanding our identity is more available to us in the 21st century CE than it was in the 5th century BC when the Buddha taught.