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So the Buddha was the earliest to propose that the mind didn't have what the Greeks called a

psyche or in Latin is called an animus or in Hindu systems are called an ottman or other

Indus Valley religions an ottman which is a central unifying organizing soul spirit inner identity

that's constant. Buddhism set itself apart some 2,500 years ago from all the other major philosophies and

psychologists of its time by proposing that the mind is not

comprised or centralized around one inner faculty such as Thaw, the court said, I think therefore I am. That was his, the way he sort of centralized, all human experience revolved around thought. For the Buddha

the human experience is comprised of a bunch of different things called aggregates, condas, and none of them have priority or

centrality or define us. What we are is not so much a single interior spirit or soul or underlying

identity but a flux of different components.

What are these components?

Things like body sensations, feelings which are muscular tensions

and contractions in the front of your body and also states of

attention, moods, thoughts, perceptions of the world. The Buddha said that these aggregates sometimes have our

attention, sometimes our foremost in mind, sometimes our awareness of the outside world is very little.

Thoughts come to the fore, awareness of the body goes down.

At other times the body's in pain.

Awareness of what's going on around us,

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