Status Updates From 洞见：从科学到哲学，打开人类的认知真相

Think of yourself as having the power to disengage from feelings, thoughts, impulses and perceptions. To disown them, liberate yourself from them. Our conception of our “selves” is at best, wildly off the mark.

Pain in your tooth can hurt you only if you own the tooth in the first place. Ownership of serious pain is optional. The Buddha believed that the less you judge things, including the contents of your mind, the more clearly you’ll see them, and the less deluded you’ll be.

Five aggregates constitute a person and their experiences. The physical body -form, basic feelings, perceptions, mental formations, consciousness or awareness. If they are not under our control, then how can we think of them as part of the self?