Thursday 26 July 2018

Teachings II

Atman: each organism has an individual soul.

Brahman-Atman: each individual soul is identical with the one transcendent reality.

Anatta: there are no individual souls.

Each teaching follows after the previous one although the third contradicts the first! The second and third teachings deny separate selfhood whereas the first might seem to imply it.

The three teachings are different narratives about consciousness whereas meditation is an experience, not a narrative.

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