Blog 1 T. Norman

"He is ungraspable for he cannot be grasped. He is undecaying. for he is not subject to decay. He has nothing sticking to him, for he does not stick to anything. he is not bound; yet he neither trembles in fear nor suffers injury" - Ganeri page 25

This quote from The Concealed Art of the Soul explains that the idea of self, cannot be obtained, tied down, or shown as a tangible figure because it does not exist. But it does exist. The self that is being sought by the searcher will never be able to seek the elf in which they want to find. The searcher is looking for something that cannot be found just by looking deep within one's "self". Although there are many examples in life of "finding yourself" or having revelations in which you appear to yourself, it is simply known that the self is not a tangible obtainable object. I have been a student who wishes to find herself, but in the beginning of this course, I now know that finding myself, while being aware that i am eagerly trying to do so is impossible and will not be revealed to me. I often rely on the occurances that whenever I am not in search of something, I eventually find it. With the knowledge of "self" and making new discoveries, I find that the self that i wish to explore will not be found right away, or maybe not at all.