Dialectics & Liberation: Insights from Buddhism and Marxism
Rev Left Radio
No Self or Anatta
The Buddhist concept of no self or emptiness means simply that nothing, including us, has a permanent essence. There is no unchanging, abiding self at the center of our subjective experience. The relentlessness of change in the cosmos spares nothing, including you and I. We talk to ourselves in our heads all day long, constantly commenting to ourselves, blabbering on about this or that. If you had to go sit in your car right now, totally alone in silence, what would your mind do? Well, it would start talking to itself.
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