“If you’re asking me about some sort of past life, or rebirth, I’m afraid I will be of little help at best, and at worst, somewhat disappointing. My Buddhist teaching encourages me not to dwell on those conceptions. Because this thing we might call a past life insinuates that we had a primary one to begin with. It implies the existence of a soul that transmigrates from body to body. That alone can be motivating, almost intoxicating, but that idea is also a myth. The Buddhist view of the nonself rejects the existence of an essential soul. It’s my belief that we are just an ever-changing
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