Broken Heart
Broken Heart
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Dawn
Heart
Rising
Opening
Opening
World
Children
Tears
Broken
Heart
Closing
Sun
Setting
Why?
Dreaming
Let
Go
Let
Go
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David Arndt 2022
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Image - "Nomad Tibetan Girl - Where Are You Now" - David Arndt 1998
Missing Self
Missing Self *** Yikes, my family has become concerned by my inability to find any solid fixed self, what to do? Best to keep quiet about my suspicion of their lack of inherent self. And who or what has been doing this searching and looking anyhow, like a gerbil spinning on a wheel? Those Buddhists, I tell you, they appear so peaceful (sometimes ) but are secretly a radical group of self deniers, how wonderfully subversive. Maybe I have been a Buddhist all along and just realized it. But then I look for the Buddhist and Bam! Same problem, there's nothing there. I must confess enjoying my nonexistent self today, uh oh, that could mean trouble. Now that I have realized my life is just a dream am wondering what comes next, or if there is a "next." Maybe I will keep looking a little more to be sure no self is to be found. The way things are going I might end up a Buddhist. Now not only can I not find myself, I can't find anyone else either. I close ...
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