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The Arrows of Thinking is a fresh perspective and very novel approach for the extraction of self from its confusion about what it is, but with realizing that other selves continue to be bewildered.
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coreSelf?
An invisible non-actor?
Sure!
If not a whimp, then what?
A helpless power supply?
Hmmmmm Let me see.
Yes, perhaps!
A freed slave is not a slave.
But just the fact that it achieved freedom is telling. Why did it have to achieve that, anyway?
And that is where the word whimp had to be invented.
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But just the fact that it achieved freedom is telling. Why did it have to achieve that, anyway?
The Buddha's teachings are pregnant with the possibility of freedom.
The wimp can be cleaned up and become a Refuge.
When one sees the arrow in the heart, it can be removed by skillful means.
Those slaves who do not need to achieve freedom may freely continue in slavery.
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For clarification of vocabulary uses.
inSelf Yoga term of psyche is the same as the term being which is used in many Buddhist literature.
For example at the link above, this sentence is given:
The second knowledge he gained that night, dealing in terms of beings dying from and being reborn to various worlds throughout the cosmos, was also a form of objectification.
The avoidance of the word, self should be noted.
inSelf Yoga also avoids the word self and uses the word psyche which is a container of natural and supernatural functions, items and energies. But I use coreSelf instead of self, so as to distinguish the general terms for self, from the other sorted items or energies which comprise the being.
The common meaning for self in English is actually a composite of several functions, items and energies and hence I agree with the Buddhist writers that there is no such thing which is permanent, because the composite will be broken apart. If it stays together for any length of time, it is worthy of a term like being (Buddhist) or psyche (my term).
Hence in inSelf Yoga, there is a coreSelf in that being or psyche. That core apparently moves in a subtle body, a particular one. It moves like a passenger who sits in a car, where it is conveyed from place to place based on the rotation of the tires.
Though the being is altered continuously, I declare that in that body there is a coreSelf. Buddhism may deny this, however. In Buddhism the entire being, psyche or subtle body, contents and all may be rated as illusory. In which case, we must agree to disagree.
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Comment to The Heart Base
