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One of the core concepts in both the darma as well as contemporary psychology.

I'm gonna refer to it as self-states.

And what self-states are going to become pretty parents.

And then once we introduce the concept

and why it's important, then I'm going to be leading a meditation

where we'll be exploring different parts of our personality or

psyche I should say a psyche are self structures and then we'll learn how to consciously connect with parts that are less available to us.

So here we go. One of the most profound teachings of the Buddha is known as

Anatta, the Buddha some 2,500 years ago, at least from what we can tell by the written records that have been passed down,

taught that there is no such thing as a single core self that remains unchanged, that human beings do not have an inflexible static core identity or self that defines them.

And from any psychological perspective

in the last 120 years, certainly since the work of William James this is not a extreme

concept or provocation.

from today's perspective, it's pretty straightforward, but at the time it was a

significantly revolutionary statement in the sense that all of the

spiritual paths of the Buddhist time basically argued that there was this core

self or soul that was the recipient of karma etc and was basically defined who we were but from the Buddhist perspective the

self was subject to constant change states of flow and that the rather than having any single entity

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