Love one another." If we took those simple words to heart, we'd already be the Buddhas Jesus wanted us to be.

Like the medieval cartographers of Europe, who felt one would fall into endless space at the edges of the oceans of their maps, we fear the presumed nothingness of no-self. Fortunately, there have been many spiritual circumnavigators who have returned to tell the tale of the beauty beyond self.

Ego is like a street urchin, born of fear and wanting and left to its own devices....