Signpost

Not where I have been, not where I am going, a signpost only to show I passed this way

In the Buddhist tradition you constantly hear: “There is no Self, the Self is an illusion”. I have always pushed back: no, there is a Self. It is not an illusion.   

For over twenty years I have been trying to find “The Self that doesn’t exist”.

I did find a Self, it was not what is commonly called the Self. The Self I found is not a noun, it is a verb: I am a constantly changing dynamically stable self-organizing bonded psycho-physical intentional process. I came into existence, I move through time, I will die.

And yes, the self that doesn’t exist does exist. What is normally called Self is real and part of the process of us.

I can sum all I know about Buddhism in one word: relationship

I can sum all I know about Reality in one word: relationship

Relationship is key.

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