Flavors

What defines who you are? What is your “true nature”/dharma?

Let’s start right there. I am sure each one of us has spent many a moment trying to answer these questions. My musings are currently at a point where I think, it’s not the question, but a strange quirk of the nature of language to allow us to even pose such a question and make it sound like a reasonable thing to ask - that’s at the nub of the answer. But I digress for our purposes here..

I think who I am is defined by two main factors – an incomprehensible sum of stories where I’ve felt that I have “lived my life” and an incomprehensible sum of personal tendencies where I’ve felt I’ve wanted to “direct my life” towards. Trying to cobble the two sums into some sense of coherence (forget comprehension!) for the present moment should take us somewhere near the “answer”.

Incomprehensible sum of stories

Stories are the things that happen to us. I read somewhere – “Fool! look into thy heart and write”. I’ve always read something somewhere - that tends to color my view about that moment in time. I’ve often wondered whether there is such a thing as an “original thought” or an “original story”..

At this present moment, all I want to seem to do is cook a hearty meal and eat it. While eating I want to reminisce about all the stories that contributed towards this particular gastronomic moment. So let’s try and zoom in on this portion of life. I hope that this is some sort of a recurring theme - where:
- I make a new post about a recipe or food I really enjoy
- It's not just the recipe! It's also the story that lead me towards that food/recipe
- And then I pose some open-ended questions that I don't understand about the recipe or story.

My hope is that I get a large enough portion of community to weigh in with their thoughts on the open ended questions - just in hopes of resolving my own flavorable problems! (and hopefully some of yours too :) )

Join me on this journey!