Blog Post 2-11-26

The effort to protect the self is persistent, yet what is being guarded is merely an illusion. Basic instincts to protect the apparent body unfold as part of life, but the impulse to shield “me” from hurt or injury belongs only to a fiction. There is no entity at risk, only a story looping on itself. All strategies to shield or preserve the self rest on the assumption there is someone vulnerable and subject to harm, yet nothing is there.  Without the illusory self, what remains is neither protected nor exposed—just the ordinary, open play of this empty appearance, free of anyone to be safe or threatened.