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Take Away Your Job, Your Name, Your Body. What's Left?
There is a method over a thousand years old that never tellsyou what you are. Only what you are not.
It is called neti neti – "not this, not this." Notyour job. Not your body. Not your name, your history, the opinion you would dieon.
This episode is about subtraction as a way of findingyourself, and why removing what you have mistaken yourself for might workfaster than adding anything at all.
IN THIS EPISODE
- Neti neti, and why a method that refuses to answer isstill an answer
- Why this is not nihilism, and why Shankara himself said so
- The room and the furniture — what is left when you…
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