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Anatta is the Buddhist teaching on the nonexistence of a permanent, independent self. It's a notoriously puzzling and elusive concept, usually leading to such questions as, "If I don't have a self, who's reading this sentence?" It's not that there's no self there, says Rodney Smith. It's just that the self that is reading this sentence is a configuration of elements that at one time did not exist and that at some point in the future will disperse.

Welcome to Based Talk. A ruthless look into the realities of the world, hosted by Rodney Smith (@lordpetty__) and Emily Wilson (@emilysavesamerica). Not for the faint of heart.

Audio chapters from the Wattpad novel HOW NOT TO VAMPIRE. There are rules about who gets to be a vampire, and Bob, a young black man living in Toronto, breaks them all. In order to stay undead, he must battle the secret vampire society hell-bent on giving him a more permanent death. Read on Wattpad: https://www.wattpad.com/story/221510371

Dr. Rodney Smith talks with leading learners, community partners, students and scholars about topics and values that impact our own lives and our nation.

View of the Hebrews; or the Tribes of Israel in America is an 1823 book by Ethan Smith, a Congregationalist minister, who argued that Native Americans were descended from the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel. The lost 10 tribes were believed to have disappeared after being taken captive by the Assyrians in the eighth century BCE. Smith's speculation was inspired by the apocryphal book II Esdras 13:41, which claims that the ten tribes settled in a far country, "where never mankind dwelt."

It's uncertain that Howard Thurman made the remark often attributed to him, "I have been writing this book all my life," but there is little doubt that he was deeply immersed in reflection on the times that bear an uncanny resemblance to the present day, which give voice to the Black Lives Matter movement.