[Buddha-l] there he goes again (sam harris)

[Gad Horowitz]

how about the experience of the self as similar to an illusion?


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From: "Richard Hayes" <rhayes at unm.edu>
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Subject: Re: [Buddha-l] there he goes again (sam harris)


> On Saturday 28 October 2006 18:55, Vicente Gonzalez wrote:
>
> > We can experience the non-existence of the -self who is experiencing
> > all these things.
>
> I would be happy to refer you to a gaggle of Buddhist epistemologists who
> would be glad to explain to you that absence can never be experienced. I
> think they are probably right. My intellect is convinced that there are
> several billion absences dancing around on my desktop, but I can't seem to
> experience any of them.
>
> So I am inclined to suggest that the absence of self that you speak of is
> nothing more than a construct of the mind, a tired old dogma dressed up in
> the borrowed guise of a noble truth.
>
> -- 
> Richard Hayes
> Department of Philosophy
> University of New Mexico
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