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#282 — Do You Really Have a Self?
Making Sense with Sam Harris
Is There a Conventional Existence of Things?
In the buddhist world we talk about dependent origination. We mean that everything that occurs occurs in dependence on a vast network of countless causes and conditions. A whole entity depends for its existence on its parts to be who i am, but parts also depend upon their wholes. My heart can't function as a heart without being imbedded in my body. My liver isn't my liver unless it's in me, and so forth. The causal nextus isn't linear. It's a real mesh. Andth in your book, you reference the a, the story king malinda a nagasena, to do this. So maybe talk about the way in which the things
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