--- In [email protected], TurquoiseB <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> --- In [email protected], "matrixmonitor" 
> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > ---Well spoken!...(below,) we all have multiple "selves"; a concept
> > more consistent with the Buddhist notion of "components" rather than
> > the Hindu concept of a "jiva" or reincarnating Soul. 
> 
> To follow up on this some more, I find this idea of
> "components" liberating.  If part of the enlightenment
> game is to get over the identification with self and 
> its attempts to be important, it just feels easier for 
> me to think of identifying less each day with different 
> "components" than it does to think of identifying less 
> with something concrete and fixed like a "self."
> 

self= transitory things (e.g. personality + beliefs + desires);
Self = non-transitory witnessing.


I've never seen the distinction between the two approaches. Sorry if you did.




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