I agree there’s an overlap there; probably significant! “Enlightenment” is a term covering a dubious multitude tho:https://vividness.live/2012/09/13/epistemology-and-enlightenment/ …
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Hypothesis: One can develop a sense of self separate from the process of self-identification, similarly to how one can develop a sense
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self separate from "thoughts" and "feelings". Once you do, the whole concept of self sorta goes out the window like a depreciated ontology
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instead it becomes better to think of there being a phenomenological field in which experiences arise, and some of those experiences get
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clamped together as a "sense of self" (as a subject?). But once you're in on the trick, it doesn't make sense to call any of those senses
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yourself, and it actually doesn't make sense to call any particular part of your phenomenological field yourself (since it's constantly
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in flux). So you have different senses of self, but no "Self".
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That at least seem to fit Theravada story and "no self" school of though. I have more of that coming, but a lot of it is speculative.
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I think it’s probably compatible with Majayana & Vajrayana conceptions as well!
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Yes, that's what I meant by "I have more of that coming" ;) But it feels crankish enough for now, so maybe I'll lay it down for a while.
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