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Here’s a passage from the Samadhiraja Sutra, a Buddhist text that’s about nineteen centuries old: Know all things to be like this: A mirage, a cloud castle, A dream, an apparition, Without essence, but with qualities that can be seen.

Why Buddhism Is True

Robert Wright

One lesson I take away from my experience disowning these various unpleasant feelings—the tension in my jaw from overcaffeination, the tooth pain, the anxiety—is the paradox of control. All three feelings, in their initial, annoying persistence, proved that they were not under my control—indeed, if anything, they were controlling me! And, according to the Buddha’s conception of “self,” my lack of control over them in turn proved that they were not part of my self. But once I followed that logic—quit seeing these things I couldn’t control as part of my self—I was liberated from them and, in a certain sense, back in control. Or maybe it would be better to put it this way: my lack of control over them ceased to be a problem.

Why Buddhism Is True

Robert Wright

However, no model fits real-world situations perfectly. Per Nobel laureate Richard Feynman, “Every theoretical physicist who is any good knows six or seven different theoretical representations for exactly the same physics.”

The One Hour China Consumer Book

Jeffrey Towson, Jonathan Woetzel

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