Blue Cheese

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You don’t really exist in the way that you think you do, so you are constantly trying to secure your existence. You are like a blue cheese, which tries to maintain itself by continually growing more mold, until the mold consumes the cheese, which dissolves into nothingness, a pile of moldy dust. We are not one wholesome, whole entity at all. We are a collection of things, all of which are uncertain as to whether they exist or not.

- Mindfulness in Action: Making Friends with Yourself through Meditation and Everyday Awareness by Chögyam Trungpa http://www.shambhala.com/mindfulness-in-action.html