Tuesday, September 1, 2009

Objective abandoning of the 'i'

One of the most interesting statements- objective abandoning of the 'i'.
How the 'i' or in other words, personal biases and views cloud our reporting or narration of events. Even anthropologists find it difficult to stick to just reporting or noting down observations. Observations themselves are biased, as we observe from our point of view, with our already existing points of view.
There was an interesting lecture where we tried to understand the objective abandoning of the 'i' and from there we went to how Buddha tried to kill sorrow by killing desires, and to kill desires he tried to abandon the 'i' in our everyday life. To be detached. To create an emptiness in our minds. And we were shown a montage where we saw the importance of constantly creating emptiness so that we provide space for newer experiences.

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