you know, I want to get back to, back to our roots here and talk about the non-existence

of selfhood, if I might, if I may.

Yeah, it's just something I was talking about yesterday and it got me thinking and just really

enjoy thinking about it and thinking about the utility of it.

You know, it's interesting, so many people

that come up with the,

or find, discover the idea of selfhood and Buddhism,

they typically like look at it from a pretty um negative perspective you know they think about it

but i think it's because you know we're egoic creatures and of course in uh in america and like

western cultures you know capitalistic cultures that um we're like consumers of our own identity in this weird way.

It's like we're marketing ourselves as humans.

And I think even within our sense of self,

there's this level of materialism, which we're scared to not be attached

to. I could say a lot more on that. And maybe I will later. Let's find out what happens.

But, you know, of course, these are symptoms of our culture, which are based on materialism and on desire and status and whatnot.

And we can't see the removal of a thing as a good thing in this culture.

It's very difficult for us to see that.

You know, years ago, whenever I was creating this album,

I thought, I was trying to think of a word that described a space that existed without anything inside of it.

I thought about it for some time.

I just couldn't seem to find a word in English that described that.

What I ended up coming up with was the word still, STI-L.

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