I’m reading Waking up by Sam Harris and I’m not sure I understand the concept of self and illusion of self. Does that mean I’m not this thing inside my head that controls the body, but that I am in fact body and my brain and there’s nothing else?
Why is that important? How can meditation and ego death help with that?
Not a English native speaker but reading in English so I’m little confused.
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I believe it’s a rewording of the concept that we don’t have souls. Maybe he is extending it a bit by saying we don’t even have a ‘self’ that exists ‘above’ our mind and body, there is no separate driver sitting behind our eyes dictating what we think and do. He got there by realizing thoughts just pop into our head and we have no control over that. We don’t even know what we are going to do next, precisely, or when. I didn’t know how this post would turn out before I started writing, but something motivated me to respond to you. If it wasn’t me, myself, I’m not sure how we describe it. Good question.
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