To understand one’s selflessness is to understand not that one is nonexistent, but that one is a real person in constant interaction with everything else in one’s environment, a causally interdependent sequence of psychophysical processes. And it is to understand that the identity we do have—our personal identity—is not achieved alone, but instead is achieved only in immersed interaction with the rest of the world we inhabit. The myriad things—the entities of the empirical world—therefore do not constitute an independent reality with which we interact, but instead constitute our reality as
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