Reply To: same sense of identity

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sybe07
Spectator

When you are really honest you will admit that you can see that your body changed during time, that your habits have changed during time, maybe your temper etc, but if you are truthful you will see there is something that has not changed at all, you.

It is like being without a headacke or with. When the headacke disappears that is a big relief but at the same time you have the sanna that it was the same person who had the headacke and is without.

Please, do not ignore the fact that there is a sense of me which is constant over time. I think the Buddha refered to it as Asmi mana, one of the deepest rooted defilements. But please do not ignore this sense of me and do not suggest i am the only deluded person who has this sense of an unaltered and unchanging Me.

Siebe