Commentary on Verse 2 of the “Xin Xin Ming”
The Story of Our Life is Not Who We Are
We would not exist without our stories, but our true essence is more than that.
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“Preferences, attachments, and stories happen. If you identify with them, truth becomes as divided as heaven and earth.
Truth is not in the attachments, opinions, and stories of the mind.
The essential truth lies eternally undisturbed by beliefs of the mind.”
— Xin Xin Ming, verse 2
The universe of our experience is constantly unfolding anew before us. That unfolding includes sensations and judgments of like/dislike, right/wrong, and better/worse.
We build the story of our lives, of who we think we are, on the opinions that arise in our minds of the infinite unfolding universe that surrounds us.
There is nothing inherently wrong with that. But most of us identify solely with those stories. We are so attached to them we believe they…
