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In one of his letters, twelfth-century Ch’an teacher Yuanwu wrote:
Actually practice at this level for twenty or thirty years and cut off all the verbal demonstrations and creeping vines and useless devices and states, until you are free from conditioned mind. Then this will be the place of peace and bliss where you stop and rest.
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Modern neuroscience now includes the study of the “bodily self”:
A key aspect of the bodily self is self-location, the experience that the self is localized at a specific position in space within one’s bodily borders (embodied self-location).
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In one of the sermons of the Pali Canon, Gautama the Buddha described “seven (types of) persons existing in the world”. Here are the first two “persons”, followed by an explanation of Gautama’s terminology:
And which, monks, is the person who is freed both ways? As to this, monks, some person is abiding, ...