I have heard many spiritual teachers just dismissively say things like, "You can't be anything that changes, right? You are not the body, or mind, or memories, or personality or whatever."
Really? I'll bet 99.99%++ of all humans who have ever existed would agree with what is written below. Can you say, clearly, why this is not accurate?? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Who or what am I? I am a body, with certain attributes and abilities (physical and mental), born to parents, exposed to things in the environment, having had experiences I have collected memories, and developed beliefs and a personality (with all its many sub- attributes). If I had been born to different parents (or adopted as an infant), or born at a different time, or born into a different body, or born in a different place, or in a different culture/society, then I would in fact be a different person. That is what a "person" is -- a unique, ever-changing, body/mind/ personality, that is born, lives for a while, then dies. That is what I am. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . How clear can you be in pointing out how, exactly, this is inaccurate? Thank you!
