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#282 - Do You Really Have a Self?

Making Sense with Sam Harris - Subscriber Content

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The Illusion of the Self

In most Indian philosophical traditions, including the Buddhist tradition, an illusion is always defined as something that exists in one way but appears in another. So when I talk about the self illusion, I'm going to be talking about the person existing as a person but often illusory taken to be a self. And it's a hard illusion to really get people to see in part because it's so out ofistic and in part because when you put it into words, it sounds preposterous.

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