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#282 — Do You Really Have a Self?

Making Sense with Sam Harris

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The Self Is an Illusion

The sakya lineage is also highly academic, scholastic ad i think the way to put this is, if you're somebody like me who's trained as a professional philosopher and is trained to be scholastic, when you encounter the galuk and the soky lineages, you kind of feel like you've come home. So let's begin by drawing a distinction, and then by talking a bit about illusion, and then coming to the self illusion an hving to try to be a little bit systematic here. There's a distinction that runs through my book, and one that i think is very important, between the self and the person.

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