“Just as a monkey roaming through the forest grabs hold of one branch, lets that go and grabs another, then lets that go and grabs still another, so too that which is called ”˜mind’ and ”˜mentality’ and ”˜consciousness’ arises as one thing and ceases as another by day and by night.’
(Connected Discourses of the Buddha, p. 595)
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The anonymous sage puts his finger on an important question. Are we one “I”, or are we many? Are we perhaps blind to our own inner fragmentation?
Worthy of a new post, which shall be forthcoming.
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Of Monkeys and Minds and Identity Through Time (trackback)
Malcolm Pollack quotes, with apparent approval, the Buddha:
Just as a monkey roaming through the forest grabs hold of one branch, lets that go and grabs another, …