Thursday 9 November 2017

When you live on the Earth and you know nothing about science it seems natural to think that the Sun revolves around the Earth. But science proved it's the other way round. It took several hundreds of years to take root but it's now generally accepted knowledge. Technically in fact, what is going on is that the Earth, Sun and all the planets are orbiting around the center of mass of the solar system.
In a similar way, it's natural to think there is an unchanging self which is the centre of one's being. But modern psychology says there is no such thing. The self, the me, something which feels so close is just a superproduct of thought. There is no thinker, only thought.
It is a hard pill to swallow, for it is 'me' after all. So this knowledge may take a long time to take root in the society. But it is so, this is a fact.

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