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Description:What if the self you experience every day is not what you think it is?The Illusion of the Self is a clear, disciplined inquiry into one of the most persistent assumptions of human the belief that there is a fixed, independent “I” at the center of life. Drawing on modern neuroscience, physics, biology, and early Buddhist insight, this book examines how the sense of self is constructed—and what becomes possible when that construction is understood.Rather than offering spiritual reassurance or speculative metaphysics, this book proceeds methodically. It begins with the physical world, showing how solidity dissolves into processes and relations under scientific examination. It then moves through the body, the brain, perception, and cognition, revealing how identity arises as a functional model rather than an inherent entity. Along the way, classical analyses such as dependent origination and emptiness are presented not as religious doctrines, but as precise descriptions of conditionality that closely parallel modern scientific understanding.Science is used here as skillful means—not as authority or proof, but as a way to loosen deeply ingrained intuitions about agency, ownership, and permanence. Where scientific explanation reaches its limits, contemplative insight begins. Together, they illuminate the same a world of processes without a fixed center, and an experience that functions without requiring a self behind it.This volume focuses on the construction and stabilization of the sense of how identity forms, why it feels convincing, and how it sustains itself through perception, conditioning, and habit. What follows from clearly seeing that construction—how identification loosens, and what remains when it does—belongs to a different kind of inquiry, one that resists full treatment in conceptual language and is therefore left deliberately open.This book is not:a meditation manuala self-help guidea religious or devotional texta claim that science “proves” BuddhismIt is:a rigorous exploration of how experience is constructeda bridge between contemporary science and classical contemplative insightan invitation to examine identity with clarity rather than beliefWritten for readers willing to move slowly and think carefully, The Illusion of the Self offers a sober, compassionate, and intellectually honest look at who we really are—and what remains when the illusion of a separate self loosens its grip.This book complements the guided meditation audiobooks in Emptiness and Care: A Guided Meditation Path (Volumes I–III), available on Spotify.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with THE ILLUSION OF THE SELF: How Science, the Brain and the Buddha Explain Who We Really Are. To get started finding THE ILLUSION OF THE SELF: How Science, the Brain and the Buddha Explain Who We Really Are, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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Description: What if the self you experience every day is not what you think it is?The Illusion of the Self is a clear, disciplined inquiry into one of the most persistent assumptions of human the belief that there is a fixed, independent “I” at the center of life. Drawing on modern neuroscience, physics, biology, and early Buddhist insight, this book examines how the sense of self is constructed—and what becomes possible when that construction is understood.Rather than offering spiritual reassurance or speculative metaphysics, this book proceeds methodically. It begins with the physical world, showing how solidity dissolves into processes and relations under scientific examination. It then moves through the body, the brain, perception, and cognition, revealing how identity arises as a functional model rather than an inherent entity. Along the way, classical analyses such as dependent origination and emptiness are presented not as religious doctrines, but as precise descriptions of conditionality that closely parallel modern scientific understanding.Science is used here as skillful means—not as authority or proof, but as a way to loosen deeply ingrained intuitions about agency, ownership, and permanence. Where scientific explanation reaches its limits, contemplative insight begins. Together, they illuminate the same a world of processes without a fixed center, and an experience that functions without requiring a self behind it.This volume focuses on the construction and stabilization of the sense of how identity forms, why it feels convincing, and how it sustains itself through perception, conditioning, and habit. What follows from clearly seeing that construction—how identification loosens, and what remains when it does—belongs to a different kind of inquiry, one that resists full treatment in conceptual language and is therefore left deliberately open.This book is not:a meditation manuala self-help guidea religious or devotional texta claim that science “proves” BuddhismIt is:a rigorous exploration of how experience is constructeda bridge between contemporary science and classical contemplative insightan invitation to examine identity with clarity rather than beliefWritten for readers willing to move slowly and think carefully, The Illusion of the Self offers a sober, compassionate, and intellectually honest look at who we really are—and what remains when the illusion of a separate self loosens its grip.This book complements the guided meditation audiobooks in Emptiness and Care: A Guided Meditation Path (Volumes I–III), available on Spotify.We have made it easy for you to find a PDF Ebooks without any digging. And by having access to our ebooks online or by storing it on your computer, you have convenient answers with THE ILLUSION OF THE SELF: How Science, the Brain and the Buddha Explain Who We Really Are. To get started finding THE ILLUSION OF THE SELF: How Science, the Brain and the Buddha Explain Who We Really Are, you are right to find our website which has a comprehensive collection of manuals listed.
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