Mindfulness is loaded with (troubling) metaphysical assumptions – https://aeon.co/essays/mindfulness-is-loaded-with-troubling-metaphysical-assumptions … via @aeonmag
That's right. See also the Mahatanhasankhaya Sutta (MN 38), where the Buddha is clearly presented as rejecting any idea of consciousness as an ongoing basis for identity.
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MN 38 is more focused on rejecting the body as the continuous factor, though.
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The focus of MN38 is the rejection of consciousness as a continuously existent basis of identity and the proper understanding of consciousness as conditioned.
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