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Last week, the first part of this sort of general theme talked about one of the

Buddha's great insights that if we really observe the mind closely, we find that there is no underlying consistent self or identity or soul, that the mind is in a constant state of flux, that a close observation of thoughts, feelings, perceptions, states of consciousness, and body sensations

reveals this ongoing, ever-changing, unrepetitive experience that never congeals to something that could ever

approximate as a soul or a sense of self or that is coherent over a long period of time and we even

experience and we observe with any degree of dedication, we'll note that there are many

times in our life where we will feel act and behave. We will feel, behave, and even

think in ways that are in no way congruent with our goals are the things that we hold deeply.

We might want to be sturdy hard workers and yet there might be times where we just feel completely unmotivated and

a desire just to take it easy. There might be times where we want to accomplish things, but we wind up easily to procrastinate.

There might be, we might want to be easy going, but find that we become excessively perfectionist in certain situations.

We might want to be forever open-minded, but then there's times when we can find ourselves

driven by very strong hostile judgments.

And the idea is that there's times in our life where we feel like something is not me that's part of our experience.

And the more we observe, the more we find that there really isn't any center of our moods, feelings, or thoughts, or perceptions. They're just this underlying shifting sand that never ever stops to create anything that's solid.

And the Buddha used that metaphor, he said there's no self or identity to even land into,

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