A
stable, solid body is a mental image superimposed onto a stream of
events in the same way that a spinning propeller is seen as a circle.
The constant succession of discrete acts of cognition or feeling appears
as a monolithic event, just as the rapid change of frames in a film
appears as a smooth continuum.
The Dalai Lama and Thubten Chodron, “An Unbroken Sequence”
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Tuesday, January 18, 2022
Via Daily Dharma: An Unbroken Sequence
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