🧑‍🦳 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. ↩