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alienIn law, a person who is not a citizen of a particular nation.
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(9) It is the appearing of that mysterious alterity that
hides in being, in the body that encompasses your own, that holds you,
not with the strength of enfolding arms, but with a tender otherness, an
essential alienness to yourself. (6) As Laura Hyun Yi Kang
points out, issues of national exclusion and inclusion, of alienness and
citizenship, are played out in histories of Asian American women's
immigration and naturalization (132-44). The actual meditation of equanimity is cultivation of the
thought, "May all sentient beings abide in an equanimity free from intimacy
and alienness, desire and hatred. |
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