🧑‍🦳 Person (Buddhism)

=== a convenient designator describing an individual who is recognized as having a mind, a body and a personality (but does not actually exist)==

True meaning

= the causal series of sets of skandhas¹

Implications

• Identification with past and future stages in the casual series of skandhas
  • → no 📍 Punctualism, relevance of time
  • e.g. unhealthy food → bad future stages
• “Life” becomes a story one self gets to write
  • → one self is the central figure in that narrative
  • → we expect our lives to have value and significance
  • → 🪦 Existential Suffering
• Less pain and suffering, since it is conventionally true

Footnotes

1. Siderits, Mark. Buddhism as Philosophy. Second edition. Indianapolis: Hackett Publishing Company, Inc, 2021. ↩