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When you are overwhelmed by strong emotions, don’t stay there—it’s too dangerous. Bring your focus down to your navel—that is the trunk, the most solid part of yourself—and practice mindful breathing. Become aware of the rise and fall of your abdomen. Doing this in a stable position, such as the sitting position, you feel much better. Just breathe. Don’t think of anything. Breathe through the movement, the rise and fall, of your abdomen. Practice in this way for ten or fifteen minutes, and the strong emotion will pass on through.
There’s a second, related scenario that might explain where we find the “you” that is liberated after the aggregates have been abandoned: maybe not all aggregates are created equal. Maybe one of them—consciousness—is special. Maybe, after “you” let go of all five aggregates, it’s this one aggregate that is liberated, released from entanglement with the other four. And maybe that’s what “you” are after letting go of the idea of the self: a kind of purified form of consciousness.
Why Buddhism Is True
Robert Wright
In 2006, he became the first hire at a new division called Nvidia Research. In his first weeks on the job, Luebke had lunch with Steve Molnar, a system architect at Nvidia and a long-time friend, and asked him what he thought a research group at Nvidia should do. For instance, should it be organized around pursuing patents? Molnar thought about it for a while and said, “I don’t see Nvidia as some kind of IP fortress. Our strength is just outrunning the other guy.”
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