1 00:00:00,100 --> 00:00:01,766 What is ego? 2 00:00:02,000 --> 00:00:03,800 Brain science takes it apart. 3 00:00:04,033 --> 00:00:06,333 Yesterday I talked about < Wu Zhuangyuan Su Qier > 4 00:00:06,533 --> 00:00:08,066 One question at the end 5 00:00:08,333 --> 00:00:09,200 Do you remember that? 6 00:00:09,633 --> 00:00:11,800 Su Can finally let go of any identity 7 00:00:12,200 --> 00:00:15,166 But he still has the title of a beggar gang leader after all 8 00:00:15,533 --> 00:00:16,933 The one who dropped everything. " 9 00:00:17,266 --> 00:00:18,066 Let go of "itself" 10 00:00:18,533 --> 00:00:21,133 Did you put a new label on yourself? 11 00:00:21,566 --> 00:00:25,300 One step further - even the "Fa Shang should give up" mentioned in the < Diamond Sutra > 12 00:00:25,633 --> 00:00:27,033 Even the "I'm practicing" thing 13 00:00:27,266 --> 00:00:28,200 It's going to break eventually 14 00:00:29,100 --> 00:00:31,866 Then the question arises: if the "I" is completely broken 15 00:00:32,200 --> 00:00:33,000 I'm gone with that. 16 00:00:33,300 --> 00:00:34,133 Who is practicing? 17 00:00:34,433 --> 00:00:35,133 Who is vowing 18 00:00:35,400 --> 00:00:36,166 Who is preaching 19 00:00:36,866 --> 00:00:38,066 Bodhisattva saves all beings 20 00:00:38,633 --> 00:00:39,766 Bodhisattva without me 21 00:00:40,200 --> 00:00:42,166 Why did he make a wish and for whom? 22 00:00:42,800 --> 00:00:45,100 The Buddha said to destroy all egotism 23 00:00:45,533 --> 00:00:46,533 After the extermination 24 00:00:46,866 --> 00:00:49,900 Who is the person who stood there teaching the Fa for forty-nine years? 25 00:00:50,766 --> 00:00:51,733 Did you notice 26 00:00:51,966 --> 00:00:54,066 Once this question is asked seriously 27 00:00:54,233 --> 00:00:56,900 Will drive the entire practice system into a dead end 28 00:00:57,500 --> 00:00:59,866 "Breaking me" and "Someone's breaking me." 29 00:01:00,366 --> 00:01:02,900 These two things logically fight each other 30 00:01:03,466 --> 00:01:07,133 Yesterday, I told you stories from movies and historical figures 31 00:01:07,633 --> 00:01:11,066 Today I want to change the angle - open my head to show you 32 00:01:11,600 --> 00:01:12,766 From brain science 33 00:01:13,100 --> 00:01:15,666 Take the word "ego" and break it down layer by layer. 34 00:01:16,300 --> 00:01:17,300 After dismantling, you will find 35 00:01:17,700 --> 00:01:19,900 The reason why that dead end existed yesterday 36 00:01:20,266 --> 00:01:21,633 It's because we started from the beginning 37 00:01:22,033 --> 00:01:23,766 I got the two things mixed up. 38 00:01:24,600 --> 00:01:24,800 Hello 39 00:01:24,800 --> 00:01:25,366 Hello. 40 00:01:25,466 --> 00:01:26,233 I am Wang Lijie 41 00:01:27,100 --> 00:01:28,233 To understand ego 42 00:01:28,466 --> 00:01:30,700 We need to address a more fundamental issue first 43 00:01:31,400 --> 00:01:32,266 The "I" thing. 44 00:01:32,500 --> 00:01:35,333 How is it produced in your brain? 45 00:01:35,966 --> 00:01:37,566 If you are a regular viewer of this channel 46 00:01:37,866 --> 00:01:40,333 You're no stranger to default mode networking. 47 00:01:41,133 --> 00:01:42,933 I was in < What the hell are you doing in meditation > 48 00:01:43,233 --> 00:01:46,233 And it's all covered in detail in "The Truth About Retrospective Brain Science" 49 00:01:46,766 --> 00:01:49,566 There's a core system in your brain called the default-mode network. 50 00:01:50,033 --> 00:01:52,700 It's most active when you're not doing anything specific. 51 00:01:53,400 --> 00:01:54,466 What is it doing? 52 00:01:55,066 --> 00:01:55,900 It's making up a story 53 00:01:56,633 --> 00:01:58,800 They make up stories about me all the time. 54 00:01:59,433 --> 00:02:00,933 What have I done in the past? 55 00:02:00,966 --> 00:02:02,266 Who am I now? 56 00:02:02,266 --> 00:02:03,533 What do people think of me? 57 00:02:03,566 --> 00:02:04,600 What will happen to me in the future? 58 00:02:05,633 --> 00:02:09,666 It's that never-ending self-narrative generator that you have in your head. 59 00:02:10,300 --> 00:02:14,266 But here's a crucial detail that many people overlook -- the sense of self. 60 00:02:14,300 --> 00:02:14,866 More than one floor 61 00:02:15,633 --> 00:02:19,700 Portuguese-American neuroscientist Antonio Damasio 62 00:02:19,766 --> 00:02:22,333 He's spent decades studying the neural basis of consciousness. 63 00:02:22,766 --> 00:02:23,400 He found out. " 64 00:02:23,700 --> 00:02:25,900 The self has at least three layers of structure. 65 00:02:26,166 --> 00:02:27,233 The lowest layer 66 00:02:27,466 --> 00:02:28,866 It's called "The Original Self." 67 00:02:29,566 --> 00:02:32,266 It's a neural mapping going on inside of you. 68 00:02:32,666 --> 00:02:36,566 It's tracking your heart rate, your breathing, your internal organs, your muscle tone. 69 00:02:37,166 --> 00:02:38,300 It doesn't need language. 70 00:02:38,500 --> 00:02:39,633 No memory required. 71 00:02:39,666 --> 00:02:41,166 It doesn't even require conscious engagement. 72 00:02:41,766 --> 00:02:43,300 A person in a deep coma 73 00:02:43,466 --> 00:02:47,033 His brain stem is still maintaining this basic physical self-representation. 74 00:02:47,900 --> 00:02:50,066 It's not "I feel like I exist." 75 00:02:50,466 --> 00:02:51,700 It's, "This organism. 76 00:02:52,000 --> 00:02:53,000 It's going on. " 77 00:02:53,100 --> 00:02:53,733 second floor 78 00:02:53,966 --> 00:02:55,200 It's called "Inner Self." 79 00:02:55,800 --> 00:02:57,300 You can try it now. 80 00:02:57,300 --> 00:02:58,866 Press your finger lightly on the table 81 00:02:59,900 --> 00:03:03,133 You don't have to think, "I'm touching the table." 82 00:03:03,133 --> 00:03:06,733 But you know right away -- there's contact going on. 83 00:03:06,766 --> 00:03:08,700 It's happening right here. 84 00:03:08,733 --> 00:03:09,600 It's happening to you. 85 00:03:10,433 --> 00:03:11,466 This knowledge. 86 00:03:11,500 --> 00:03:13,066 Is done before the language 87 00:03:13,333 --> 00:03:14,600 There's no narrative. 88 00:03:14,600 --> 00:03:16,633 It's not about the past or the future. 89 00:03:16,633 --> 00:03:21,433 It is a naked present awareness that something is being experienced 90 00:03:21,466 --> 00:03:24,133 And there's a vague "who" is experiencing it. 91 00:03:24,700 --> 00:03:25,733 Third floor 92 00:03:25,733 --> 00:03:27,766 It's who most people think of as "me." 93 00:03:28,700 --> 00:03:31,033 Damasio called it "the autobiographical self." 94 00:03:31,833 --> 00:03:34,600 This layer relies on higher functions of the cerebral cortex 95 00:03:34,933 --> 00:03:37,366 Especially the synergy between the prefrontal and temporal lobes 96 00:03:38,266 --> 00:03:41,433 It takes your memories, your identity, your social role 97 00:03:41,800 --> 00:03:44,433 Your life narrative is all woven together 98 00:03:44,600 --> 00:03:46,500 It goes on and on in my story. 99 00:03:46,933 --> 00:03:48,600 Your name, your occupation 100 00:03:48,900 --> 00:03:51,366 Your childhood memories, your plans for the future 101 00:03:51,700 --> 00:03:53,300 It's all about the autobiographical self. 102 00:03:54,300 --> 00:03:56,666 And the core hardware that powers this layer 103 00:03:56,666 --> 00:03:59,300 That default mode that we keep talking about, network. 104 00:04:00,100 --> 00:04:01,000 These three floors 105 00:04:01,000 --> 00:04:02,100 Please remember 106 00:04:02,300 --> 00:04:04,333 Because of everything that follows. 107 00:04:04,533 --> 00:04:05,700 It all revolves around them. 108 00:04:06,466 --> 00:04:07,000 Now. 109 00:04:07,266 --> 00:04:09,433 I'm going to do the most crucial step in this video 110 00:04:09,900 --> 00:04:12,133 Put Damasio's three-layer self-model 111 00:04:12,400 --> 00:04:14,733 On the Theory of Egotism in Consciousness Only 112 00:04:15,200 --> 00:04:16,266 Consciousness-only theory 113 00:04:16,533 --> 00:04:17,533 I have two kinds. 114 00:04:18,233 --> 00:04:19,966 The first one is called "I'm the One." 115 00:04:20,366 --> 00:04:22,033 The second is called "parting." 116 00:04:22,500 --> 00:04:24,400 Those two words sound very classical 117 00:04:24,633 --> 00:04:26,866 But put it in Marcio's frame. 118 00:04:27,266 --> 00:04:29,100 It's goosebumps with precision. 119 00:04:29,566 --> 00:04:33,200 Born with me - "born with" means innate 120 00:04:33,700 --> 00:04:36,100 You don't have to learn. You don't have to think. 121 00:04:36,333 --> 00:04:37,333 It is naturally there 122 00:04:37,833 --> 00:04:39,166 A newborn baby 123 00:04:39,500 --> 00:04:40,566 Haven't learned to speak yet 124 00:04:41,000 --> 00:04:42,700 I still don't know my name 125 00:04:43,166 --> 00:04:45,466 But when he is hungry, he will cry, and when he is in pain, he will shrink his hands 126 00:04:46,033 --> 00:04:47,633 He doesn't think, "I'm hungry." 127 00:04:47,933 --> 00:04:49,400 But his entire body system 128 00:04:49,666 --> 00:04:52,300 Doing one thing for him - taking all the experiences 129 00:04:52,566 --> 00:04:55,500 This is how I feel. 130 00:04:56,000 --> 00:04:58,133 This is Damasio's "primordial self." 131 00:04:58,233 --> 00:04:59,500 Add "core self"? 132 00:05:00,066 --> 00:05:04,566 A pre-linguistic, pre-conceptual, biological sense of self-belonging 133 00:05:05,066 --> 00:05:06,533 You don't need to know the word "I." 134 00:05:06,766 --> 00:05:07,766 Your nervous system 135 00:05:08,066 --> 00:05:12,333 The "flag all signals as belonging to this organism" operation is already being performed 136 00:05:13,000 --> 00:05:14,733 Translated into predictive coding 137 00:05:15,100 --> 00:05:16,333 Ego 138 00:05:16,333 --> 00:05:19,166 The prior belief with the highest precision and weight 139 00:05:19,700 --> 00:05:22,733 "There is a continuous, unified subject of experience." 140 00:05:23,433 --> 00:05:25,466 You didn't learn this belief 141 00:05:25,466 --> 00:05:28,166 It's evolution written into your neural architecture. 142 00:05:28,833 --> 00:05:29,466 It goes deep. 143 00:05:29,633 --> 00:05:31,433 You're not even aware of it. 144 00:05:31,866 --> 00:05:36,033 Then there's the dissociation -- dissociation is thinking apart. 145 00:05:36,133 --> 00:05:37,400 The meaning of conceptual construction 146 00:05:38,000 --> 00:05:39,566 This layer is learned 147 00:05:40,100 --> 00:05:41,200 You are growing 148 00:05:41,500 --> 00:05:44,066 Learned "my name is so-and-so", "I am Chinese" 149 00:05:44,466 --> 00:05:47,366 "I am a successful person", "I am a kind person" 150 00:05:47,733 --> 00:05:48,933 You surround yourself with these labels 151 00:05:49,200 --> 00:05:51,866 It's a whole narrative about who I am. 152 00:05:52,433 --> 00:05:55,566 Your self-esteem, your anxiety, your identity. 153 00:05:56,000 --> 00:05:58,633 A feeling of superiority or inferiority when you compare yourself to others 154 00:05:59,033 --> 00:06:01,233 It's all based on separating ego. 155 00:06:02,233 --> 00:06:04,400 It's Damasio's "autobiographical self." 156 00:06:04,800 --> 00:06:08,166 It's the default mode, the "My Story" that the web weaves around day and night 157 00:06:08,766 --> 00:06:09,833 In fashionable terms 158 00:06:10,066 --> 00:06:11,866 It's a set of characters you maintain yourself 159 00:06:12,533 --> 00:06:13,233 Two sets of theories 160 00:06:13,500 --> 00:06:14,866 Fifteen hundred years of time difference 161 00:06:15,166 --> 00:06:18,366 Two completely different research methods - one based on vipassana 162 00:06:18,600 --> 00:06:21,433 One by MRI -- points to the same structure. 163 00:06:21,800 --> 00:06:22,900 I'm going to stop here. 164 00:06:23,166 --> 00:06:25,666 Bring those three characters from yesterday back to the table 165 00:06:26,500 --> 00:06:29,433 Yesterday I talked about Xiang Yu, Su Dongpo, Chu Shijian 166 00:06:29,866 --> 00:06:32,200 What's going on at the neural level? 167 00:06:32,966 --> 00:06:34,233 Xiang Yu on the edge of the Wujiang River 168 00:06:34,600 --> 00:06:36,533 Liu Bang's army is an objective fact 169 00:06:36,933 --> 00:06:39,033 The pavilion-long boat is also an objective fact 170 00:06:39,600 --> 00:06:42,233 The 8,000 children of Jiangdong are also objective facts 171 00:06:42,966 --> 00:06:46,300 But his default mode, the network, is playing a narrative at that moment. 172 00:06:46,666 --> 00:06:47,733 "I am the Overlord of Xichu 173 00:06:48,100 --> 00:06:52,300 The Overlord of Xichu cannot lose, cannot escape, and cannot be ashamed of Jiangdong Fathers 174 00:06:52,900 --> 00:06:55,733 "The precision of this narrative has been weighted to the maximum. 175 00:06:56,433 --> 00:06:59,766 Big enough to overwhelm the "alive" signal from his primordial self 176 00:07:00,533 --> 00:07:01,833 His core self is still there. 177 00:07:02,266 --> 00:07:05,766 He could feel the breath, the hilt, the wind. 178 00:07:06,333 --> 00:07:08,866 But the autobiographical narrative of "I am the Overlord of West Chu" 179 00:07:09,200 --> 00:07:10,533 Drown it all 180 00:07:11,100 --> 00:07:12,900 He didn't kill his own body. 181 00:07:13,233 --> 00:07:14,233 He killed 182 00:07:14,266 --> 00:07:17,233 It's the "I" that doesn't play on the network in default mode. 183 00:07:18,033 --> 00:07:21,200 The day Su Dongpo was thrown from Beijing to Huangzhou 184 00:07:21,533 --> 00:07:23,433 His autobiographical narrative collapsed. 185 00:07:23,900 --> 00:07:26,233 The storyline of "Maester Hanlin" is broken. 186 00:07:27,000 --> 00:07:29,066 But he didn't hold on like Xiang Yu 187 00:07:29,533 --> 00:07:33,200 And he did something really amazing -- he took that story line. 188 00:07:33,533 --> 00:07:34,366 Active shutdown 189 00:07:35,000 --> 00:07:36,000 He changed his name. 190 00:07:36,233 --> 00:07:37,166 It's called "Dongpo Jushi". 191 00:07:37,833 --> 00:07:38,533 You see 192 00:07:38,766 --> 00:07:39,833 A new name. 193 00:07:40,100 --> 00:07:42,000 It's a new narrative starting point 194 00:07:42,733 --> 00:07:44,600 Default mode network is still running 195 00:07:45,200 --> 00:07:49,000 But it began to make up a new story - an old farmer 196 00:07:49,266 --> 00:07:52,700 An idler who makes wine, a scholar who watches the moon 197 00:07:53,233 --> 00:07:55,166 Old transcendental beliefs are corrected 198 00:07:55,666 --> 00:07:57,966 New circuits are slowly trained 199 00:07:58,533 --> 00:07:59,700 Chu Shijian is more ruthless 200 00:08:00,300 --> 00:08:01,900 The years he spent in prison 201 00:08:02,100 --> 00:08:04,233 It's a complete "narrative clearing" 202 00:08:04,800 --> 00:08:06,366 The old man who came out of prison 203 00:08:06,566 --> 00:08:07,866 It's not that "Smoke King" anymore 204 00:08:08,500 --> 00:08:11,400 He squatted on Ailao Mountain to learn grafting from farmers 205 00:08:11,833 --> 00:08:14,100 It's not because he realized some cosmic truth 206 00:08:14,666 --> 00:08:17,033 It's because of his default mode network 207 00:08:17,166 --> 00:08:19,566 That "I am the King of Smoke" high-weight prior 208 00:08:19,933 --> 00:08:22,233 Gone by time and walls 209 00:08:22,933 --> 00:08:23,866 After grinding off 210 00:08:23,900 --> 00:08:25,500 He can really squat down 211 00:08:25,966 --> 00:08:26,633 So you see 212 00:08:26,833 --> 00:08:28,900 Yesterday I was talking about the fates of three people 213 00:08:29,366 --> 00:08:30,800 What I'm going to show you today is 214 00:08:31,233 --> 00:08:32,266 The knife of fate 215 00:08:32,566 --> 00:08:35,133 On which layer of neural tissue was it scratched? 216 00:08:35,533 --> 00:08:35,933 OK 217 00:08:36,166 --> 00:08:37,166 With this picture 218 00:08:37,400 --> 00:08:41,466 Let's go back to the key question -- Buddhism says to "break the self-attachment" 219 00:08:41,866 --> 00:08:43,433 Which floor is broken? 220 00:08:44,100 --> 00:08:45,266 The answer to this question 221 00:08:45,433 --> 00:08:48,266 It directly determines whether the dead end yesterday will pass 222 00:08:49,100 --> 00:08:51,166 Let's talk about the conclusion first: the practice needs to be broken 223 00:08:51,500 --> 00:08:53,100 The first is to separate the ego 224 00:08:53,533 --> 00:08:55,400 In the end, it's ego. 225 00:08:56,133 --> 00:08:57,033 But the word "broken" 226 00:08:57,366 --> 00:08:58,233 Seriously misunderstood 227 00:08:59,200 --> 00:09:01,633 Most people hear this word "ego-crushing." 228 00:09:01,900 --> 00:09:04,200 The gut reaction is - kill "me" 229 00:09:04,533 --> 00:09:06,700 Become an empty shell without a sense of self 230 00:09:07,333 --> 00:09:08,100 This understanding 231 00:09:08,400 --> 00:09:09,233 You're wrong. 232 00:09:10,033 --> 00:09:12,133 You have antivirus software on your phone 233 00:09:12,666 --> 00:09:15,066 It scans for viruses, it gets rid of malware. 234 00:09:16,166 --> 00:09:18,266 If I told you, "Get rid of the virus," 235 00:09:18,533 --> 00:09:20,133 Would you translate that to "smash your phone"? 236 00:09:20,766 --> 00:09:21,300 Of course not. 237 00:09:22,100 --> 00:09:24,833 Getting rid of the virus is to get the phone back up and running normally. 238 00:09:25,233 --> 00:09:26,333 Not destroy the phone 239 00:09:27,066 --> 00:09:27,600 ego 240 00:09:27,900 --> 00:09:28,633 It's that virus 241 00:09:29,300 --> 00:09:30,333 The basic function of the "I" 242 00:09:30,466 --> 00:09:31,666 It was never a virus. 243 00:09:32,166 --> 00:09:33,300 Damasio's research 244 00:09:33,533 --> 00:09:36,300 Which is right up there with neuroscience. 245 00:09:37,000 --> 00:09:38,233 There is a clinical category of patients 246 00:09:38,600 --> 00:09:41,166 Loss of an autobiographical self due to brain injury 247 00:09:41,766 --> 00:09:43,166 They don't remember who they are. 248 00:09:43,733 --> 00:09:45,000 I don't remember my past 249 00:09:45,433 --> 00:09:48,933 There is no coherent life narrative - but their core self remains 250 00:09:49,500 --> 00:09:52,500 They can still feel the pain and pleasure of the moment 251 00:09:52,500 --> 00:09:56,066 You can still have an immediate emotional connection with the person in front of you. 252 00:09:56,366 --> 00:09:58,066 Can still respond to the environment locally 253 00:09:58,700 --> 00:10:00,466 What they lost was my story. 254 00:10:00,800 --> 00:10:02,600 But I didn't lose the awareness of the moment. 255 00:10:04,166 --> 00:10:08,133 What's even more interesting is that these patients after losing their autobiographical self 256 00:10:08,266 --> 00:10:10,966 Many were surprisingly peaceful. 257 00:10:11,433 --> 00:10:14,966 You think about that feeling: that voice in your head suddenly goes quiet 258 00:10:14,966 --> 00:10:19,166 The voice that is always comparing, worrying, and choreographing tomorrow's script 259 00:10:19,333 --> 00:10:19,766 Stop 260 00:10:20,433 --> 00:10:21,866 It's not because they're enlightened. 261 00:10:21,900 --> 00:10:25,433 It's because of the machine that keeps making up stories and creating anxiety 262 00:10:25,433 --> 00:10:26,933 Forced to shut down 263 00:10:27,433 --> 00:10:29,066 You take this clinical observation 264 00:10:29,100 --> 00:10:33,100 Put it in the framework of Consciousness-Only - the self-attachment has been removed 265 00:10:33,433 --> 00:10:35,533 But the basic function of the innate ego is still there 266 00:10:36,233 --> 00:10:37,266 People didn't disappear 267 00:10:37,500 --> 00:10:39,600 The painful narrative machine stops. 268 00:10:40,400 --> 00:10:40,833 Certainly. 269 00:10:41,100 --> 00:10:44,933 These patients have lost their narrative function passively due to brain damage 270 00:10:45,366 --> 00:10:48,633 Practitioners go beyond narrative through training and initiative 271 00:10:48,933 --> 00:10:50,233 One is a system failure. 272 00:10:50,400 --> 00:10:51,533 One is a system upgrade. 273 00:10:52,033 --> 00:10:52,766 That's two different things. 274 00:10:53,466 --> 00:10:56,200 But it at least proves one thing on the neural level 275 00:10:56,666 --> 00:10:57,666 Remove "my story." 276 00:10:58,000 --> 00:10:59,366 Doesn't mean taking out "I exist." 277 00:11:00,166 --> 00:11:02,000 And the cognitive-only description of this 278 00:11:02,233 --> 00:11:03,633 More accurate than Damasio 279 00:11:04,300 --> 00:11:06,700 Consciousness-only learning does not say, "Destroy Mornah." 280 00:11:06,733 --> 00:11:08,400 It says, "Turn consciousness into wisdom." 281 00:11:09,133 --> 00:11:09,866 Mona 282 00:11:10,133 --> 00:11:12,733 It's that seventh sense that's always grabbing the "me" 283 00:11:13,100 --> 00:11:14,600 It's not been wiped out. 284 00:11:14,600 --> 00:11:15,433 Was transformed 285 00:11:16,266 --> 00:11:17,400 Transformed into what? 286 00:11:17,633 --> 00:11:18,433 Equality Intelligence 287 00:11:19,333 --> 00:11:21,333 Equal intelligence is not "no self." 288 00:11:21,333 --> 00:11:24,966 "No more compulsive division of everything into mine and not mine." 289 00:11:25,800 --> 00:11:29,066 You can still tell the difference between, "This is your hand and somebody else's hand." 290 00:11:29,500 --> 00:11:31,733 You can still make decisions and have preferences 291 00:11:32,033 --> 00:11:34,000 You have different responses to different things. 292 00:11:34,733 --> 00:11:36,133 But that "takes all the experience 293 00:11:36,133 --> 00:11:38,833 Is forced into my narrative. " 294 00:11:39,166 --> 00:11:39,800 Stop 295 00:11:40,866 --> 00:11:44,533 In the words of predictive coding - the precision weight of that imaginary height 296 00:11:44,766 --> 00:11:46,266 Returned to a reasonable level 297 00:11:46,533 --> 00:11:47,733 Not zeroing 298 00:11:47,733 --> 00:11:49,700 Is back to where it should be 299 00:11:50,033 --> 00:11:50,733 Go here. 300 00:11:50,866 --> 00:11:52,900 That cul-de-sac opened yesterday. 301 00:11:53,133 --> 00:11:54,666 After the Bodhisattva broke the ego 302 00:11:54,700 --> 00:11:56,266 Why can you still make a wish? 303 00:11:56,600 --> 00:11:58,933 Because you don't need an ego to make a wish. 304 00:11:59,466 --> 00:12:00,533 Quite the contrary. 305 00:12:00,800 --> 00:12:02,600 Egotism is the greatest obstacle to making a wish 306 00:12:03,000 --> 00:12:04,000 Think about it. 307 00:12:04,000 --> 00:12:06,833 A vow from a man driven by a sense of separateness 308 00:12:06,833 --> 00:12:08,533 What did his wish look like? 309 00:12:08,600 --> 00:12:12,833 "I want to become a Buddha, I want to save sentient beings, I want to practice better than others 310 00:12:13,100 --> 00:12:14,700 "Subject is all" I " 311 00:12:14,700 --> 00:12:16,566 Motivation is all about self-actualization. 312 00:12:17,133 --> 00:12:19,766 This kind of desire is called "some leakage of goodness" in consciousness-only. 313 00:12:20,100 --> 00:12:22,000 It can produce positive results 314 00:12:22,266 --> 00:12:25,400 But it's also feeding the priori belief in me. 315 00:12:25,433 --> 00:12:27,933 Let your knowledge grow bigger and bigger 316 00:12:28,333 --> 00:12:29,366 The better you do. " 317 00:12:29,633 --> 00:12:31,800 I am an advanced practitioner. " 318 00:12:32,066 --> 00:12:32,600 Thicker 319 00:12:33,233 --> 00:12:36,233 And what about a Bodhisattva who broke the separation of ego? 320 00:12:36,266 --> 00:12:37,900 There is a saying in the Diamond Sutra 321 00:12:37,933 --> 00:12:40,200 It can be read almost as a diagnostic report 322 00:12:40,566 --> 00:12:44,233 "If there is an infinite amount of extinction, countless and boundless sentient beings 323 00:12:44,233 --> 00:12:46,466 There is no one who can be extinguished. " 324 00:12:46,633 --> 00:12:48,100 Spent countless sentient beings 325 00:12:48,133 --> 00:12:51,133 But it's clear in my heart - there's no "me" there 326 00:12:51,133 --> 00:12:52,833 Not a single sentient being has been captured. 327 00:12:53,333 --> 00:12:54,333 It happened. 328 00:12:54,500 --> 00:12:55,933 But there's no one around to do the bookkeeping. 329 00:12:56,800 --> 00:12:58,233 This is not false modesty. 330 00:12:58,366 --> 00:13:00,933 It's an accurate description of a cognitive state. 331 00:13:01,733 --> 00:13:05,600 When the mind no longer compulsively labels everything as "I" 332 00:13:05,633 --> 00:13:06,966 Action still happens 333 00:13:07,000 --> 00:13:08,800 Compassion still emerges 334 00:13:08,800 --> 00:13:11,466 But that story machine is no longer running in sync. 335 00:13:11,500 --> 00:13:14,933 I don't have to weave it all into the "How amazing am I" narrative anymore. 336 00:13:15,533 --> 00:13:16,466 Bodhisattva's Wish 337 00:13:16,500 --> 00:13:20,033 Not born out of the self-narrative of the default mode network 338 00:13:20,333 --> 00:13:23,166 It emerges directly from the core self. 339 00:13:23,666 --> 00:13:27,133 A pre-narrative, present, direct response to suffering 340 00:13:27,733 --> 00:13:29,800 Like when you see a child fall 341 00:13:29,800 --> 00:13:31,566 Your hand is already out. 342 00:13:31,866 --> 00:13:34,966 You don't have to think, "Am I a caring person?" 343 00:13:35,566 --> 00:13:37,833 This also explains a question that many people are confused about 344 00:13:38,366 --> 00:13:40,833 Why does Mahayana Buddhism say "no-self" at the same time? 345 00:13:41,000 --> 00:13:44,433 He also acknowledges that there is cause and effect, reincarnation, and a spiritual subject 346 00:13:44,966 --> 00:13:46,400 Because "selflessness" denies 347 00:13:46,566 --> 00:13:48,433 It's not a functional self-process. 348 00:13:48,533 --> 00:13:52,533 It's to deny the existence of a "fixed, unchanging, independent entity." 349 00:13:52,533 --> 00:13:53,266 Call me. " 350 00:13:53,833 --> 00:13:55,333 Your body is metabolizing 351 00:13:55,333 --> 00:13:57,233 Your nerve cells are reforming 352 00:13:57,266 --> 00:13:59,000 Your memory is changing 353 00:13:59,000 --> 00:14:00,133 You every moment 354 00:14:00,166 --> 00:14:01,900 You're not who you were five minutes ago 355 00:14:02,266 --> 00:14:04,633 But there's an ongoing process going on. 356 00:14:04,866 --> 00:14:08,633 The chain of cause and effect, the renewal of seeds, and the continuation of experience 357 00:14:09,033 --> 00:14:11,233 I'm talking about selflessness and reincarnation 358 00:14:11,333 --> 00:14:13,366 I used a metaphor - the river 359 00:14:14,033 --> 00:14:15,500 The river is real 360 00:14:15,533 --> 00:14:17,133 You can swim in it 361 00:14:17,133 --> 00:14:19,700 But you'll never be able to grab a handful of rivers to carry. 362 00:14:20,033 --> 00:14:21,233 "I" is the river. 363 00:14:21,766 --> 00:14:23,633 You can say the river is flowing 364 00:14:23,666 --> 00:14:25,700 But if you have to ask where the river is 365 00:14:25,900 --> 00:14:28,733 Point to any drop of water and say, "This is the river." 366 00:14:28,733 --> 00:14:29,766 It's all wrong. 367 00:14:30,533 --> 00:14:32,066 The river is not a single drop of water 368 00:14:32,366 --> 00:14:34,466 The river is the "process of water flow" itself 369 00:14:35,200 --> 00:14:36,800 "I" is not a thought. 370 00:14:37,133 --> 00:14:40,033 Any memory, any identity tag 371 00:14:40,600 --> 00:14:43,033 "I" is the very process of consciousness flowing. 372 00:14:43,500 --> 00:14:44,266 ego 373 00:14:44,266 --> 00:14:46,900 You planted a flag on this river 374 00:14:47,400 --> 00:14:48,800 It says, "This is my river." 375 00:14:49,233 --> 00:14:51,466 Then desperately hold on to the flagpole 376 00:14:52,066 --> 00:14:53,200 solipsism 377 00:14:53,200 --> 00:14:54,866 Instead of filling up the river 378 00:14:54,866 --> 00:14:56,400 The flag was pulled 379 00:14:56,900 --> 00:14:57,733 The river is still flowing 380 00:14:57,933 --> 00:14:58,833 The water is still moving 381 00:14:59,333 --> 00:15:02,300 But no one stood by and declared, "This river belongs to me." 382 00:15:02,866 --> 00:15:05,300 Yesterday I talked about the scene where Su Can was among the beggars 383 00:15:05,800 --> 00:15:09,166 Wu Mengda said to him, "In the old days when people didn't live 384 00:15:09,200 --> 00:15:13,400 Now is the day "- you should be able to see it clearly by now 385 00:15:13,766 --> 00:15:15,133 What happened in that moment? 386 00:15:15,933 --> 00:15:17,466 I'm broken 387 00:15:17,900 --> 00:15:21,466 The narrative of the "Young Master of the Su Family" in the autobiographical self has been discontinued. 388 00:15:21,966 --> 00:15:24,666 But for the first time, the inner self is released. 389 00:15:25,033 --> 00:15:26,600 He can feel hunger 390 00:15:26,633 --> 00:15:28,833 You can feel the warmth of a bowl of hot porridge 391 00:15:29,533 --> 00:15:30,966 He got poorer. 392 00:15:31,000 --> 00:15:32,366 He was there for the first time. 393 00:15:33,400 --> 00:15:35,500 Before, I had two of you in my mind 394 00:15:35,700 --> 00:15:36,633 One is saying 395 00:15:36,633 --> 00:15:39,600 One of them shared an analogy with me in "Listen" 396 00:15:40,100 --> 00:15:43,366 The physical body is a self-running local AI mockup 397 00:15:43,700 --> 00:15:45,333 It's what Taoists call "knowing God." 398 00:15:46,033 --> 00:15:48,900 The soul is the primordial spirit sitting in the cockpit of the physical body. 399 00:15:49,433 --> 00:15:51,833 Although the physical body speaks of the same awareness 400 00:15:51,833 --> 00:15:55,000 Dissociated into two different "embodied intelligence" bodies 401 00:15:55,433 --> 00:15:56,800 But the spiritual level 402 00:15:56,800 --> 00:15:59,666 All sentient beings are one 403 00:16:00,000 --> 00:16:02,966 It's that "me" that's taking up all your bandwidth 404 00:16:03,300 --> 00:16:07,066 Your connection to the super-consciousness of the universe is almost cut off 405 00:16:07,633 --> 00:16:10,566 And you're like a Tesla driverless. 406 00:16:10,566 --> 00:16:13,400 Rely on local small models to move around the world 407 00:16:13,933 --> 00:16:15,833 In case of an emergency 408 00:16:15,833 --> 00:16:17,933 Yuan Shen can't take over the steering wheel either 409 00:16:18,166 --> 00:16:20,433 Because he is sleeping, dormant 410 00:16:21,000 --> 00:16:23,533 Practice is to try to wake up the primordial spirit 411 00:16:23,700 --> 00:16:25,600 Monitor road condition information at all times 412 00:16:25,866 --> 00:16:26,966 When needed 413 00:16:27,000 --> 00:16:28,700 Take over the steering wheel a little bit 414 00:16:29,466 --> 00:16:30,066 wake up 415 00:16:30,366 --> 00:16:32,900 It's when you go from NPC to super player 416 00:16:33,133 --> 00:16:35,833 Take full control of this little local model body 417 00:16:36,200 --> 00:16:38,366 That's what the Buddhists call "the body." 418 00:16:38,833 --> 00:16:41,533 There is no scientific evidence for this analogy. 419 00:16:41,533 --> 00:16:45,300 It's just a convenient method I knitted for everyone to understand 420 00:16:45,733 --> 00:16:47,633 It's also a machine talk. 421 00:16:47,633 --> 00:16:49,966 No need to delve into the logical details 422 00:16:50,166 --> 00:16:51,566 Otherwise, it will be serious again. 423 00:16:51,733 --> 00:16:52,333 All right. 424 00:16:52,366 --> 00:16:52,966 So much for that. 425 00:16:53,000 --> 00:16:55,133 Let's wrap up today's clues 426 00:16:55,333 --> 00:16:57,766 Damasio takes apart three layers of his self. 427 00:16:57,800 --> 00:17:01,766 Consciousness-Only made almost the same distinction 1,500 years ago. 428 00:17:02,133 --> 00:17:03,766 Everyone at the bottom is born with ego 429 00:17:03,800 --> 00:17:09,066 It's the biological self-attribution function -- deep, implicit, pre-linguistic. 430 00:17:09,266 --> 00:17:10,700 The upper self 431 00:17:10,700 --> 00:17:15,633 It is narrative construction at the conceptual level - shallow, explicit, acquired learning 432 00:17:16,066 --> 00:17:18,366 Meditation is not eliminating the function of the "I" 433 00:17:18,633 --> 00:17:21,466 Is to identify and loosen the "ego" virus 434 00:17:22,033 --> 00:17:24,300 See your name and identity first 435 00:17:24,433 --> 00:17:27,433 Social roles are just a temporary suit 436 00:17:27,433 --> 00:17:31,633 And gradually loosen that deep belief that "there is an independent me" 437 00:17:32,000 --> 00:17:36,033 See that it is just a prior assumption with extremely high precision and weight 438 00:17:36,433 --> 00:17:38,466 It's not an irreversible cosmic truth. 439 00:17:38,900 --> 00:17:41,900 When these two layers of attachment are loosened to a certain extent 440 00:17:42,200 --> 00:17:44,466 The Transformation of Eminence into Equality Intelligence 441 00:17:45,066 --> 00:17:46,566 It's not that the "I" disappeared. 442 00:17:46,566 --> 00:17:50,466 It's the forced boundary between "me" and "you" that melts away 443 00:17:50,800 --> 00:17:55,100 You still have a unique perspective, a unique cause, and a unique mission 444 00:17:55,133 --> 00:17:57,900 But you're no longer being held hostage by a narrative machine. 445 00:17:58,066 --> 00:18:01,600 Putting everything on "my credit" or "my pain" 446 00:18:02,166 --> 00:18:03,133 Bodhisattva's Wish 447 00:18:03,133 --> 00:18:06,200 It is precisely in this state that the power is greatest 448 00:18:06,633 --> 00:18:08,566 Because it doesn't need an "I" to refuel. 449 00:18:08,966 --> 00:18:11,533 Its fuel is the direct awareness of suffering 450 00:18:11,866 --> 00:18:13,733 There's no "mine" or "his." 451 00:18:14,233 --> 00:18:16,266 There's no "I'm saving sentient beings" baggage. 452 00:18:16,433 --> 00:18:21,566 Action is purer, more durable, less prone to being worn down by self-consumption 453 00:18:21,900 --> 00:18:24,733 So back to the question left by Stephen Chow yesterday 454 00:18:25,233 --> 00:18:27,300 Su Can finally became the leader of the Beggar Gang 455 00:18:27,533 --> 00:18:29,366 Isn't that also an identity? 456 00:18:29,966 --> 00:18:33,700 Now you can give yourself an answer using today's framework 457 00:18:33,933 --> 00:18:35,900 If the label of the beggar gang leader 458 00:18:35,933 --> 00:18:37,766 Into his default mode network 459 00:18:37,766 --> 00:18:41,166 It became a new autobiographical narrative of who I was. 460 00:18:41,200 --> 00:18:42,833 Then it's a new piece of clothing. 461 00:18:42,833 --> 00:18:43,533 Will strangle him 462 00:18:43,633 --> 00:18:47,300 But if it's just a functional term - someone else calls him 463 00:18:47,300 --> 00:18:48,300 He promised 464 00:18:48,533 --> 00:18:52,333 When something is done, it falls apart -- it stays in the core self. 465 00:18:52,333 --> 00:18:54,400 That story didn't get into autobiography at all 466 00:18:54,933 --> 00:18:55,933 No story 467 00:18:55,933 --> 00:18:56,933 No lock 468 00:18:57,400 --> 00:18:58,566 Each of you 469 00:18:58,566 --> 00:19:01,000 In fact, I do the same judgment question every day 470 00:19:01,466 --> 00:19:04,666 What was the first thing you said to yourself when you woke up this morning? 471 00:19:05,266 --> 00:19:07,366 It's, "I'm going to be the good me today." 472 00:19:07,533 --> 00:19:09,200 Or, "I'm going to have a drink of water today. 473 00:19:09,400 --> 00:19:11,000 Feel the water enter your body. " 474 00:19:11,600 --> 00:19:14,366 The first is the autobiographical self, the machine is on. 475 00:19:14,533 --> 00:19:16,400 The second is the core self, the online self. 476 00:19:16,766 --> 00:19:19,200 Practice is not about not drinking water or doing anything 477 00:19:19,366 --> 00:19:20,900 It's for you to do things 478 00:19:21,066 --> 00:19:22,033 Turn it on less. 479 00:19:22,900 --> 00:19:23,433 And finally. 480 00:19:23,466 --> 00:19:24,900 I want to leave a bigger question 481 00:19:25,600 --> 00:19:28,233 When we say "break the ego," we don't mean destroy the "me." 482 00:19:28,400 --> 00:19:29,400 It's a loose grip. 483 00:19:30,000 --> 00:19:31,933 But to what extent is it considered "broken"? 484 00:19:32,600 --> 00:19:34,966 If all the flags on this river were pulled up 485 00:19:35,200 --> 00:19:36,000 The water is still flowing 486 00:19:36,666 --> 00:19:39,133 But if even the awareness itself of "the water is flowing" 487 00:19:39,333 --> 00:19:42,733 No longer owned by any subject - that river 488 00:19:42,933 --> 00:19:44,033 Is it still a river? 489 00:19:44,566 --> 00:19:45,166 Or say 490 00:19:45,433 --> 00:19:48,133 It became something that we didn't even have a name for. 491 00:19:48,833 --> 00:19:50,500 Su Can gave up all identities 492 00:19:50,633 --> 00:19:51,633 Left in a beggar 493 00:19:52,233 --> 00:19:53,800 This has been beyond the comprehension of many people 494 00:19:54,433 --> 00:19:56,233 But if you even let go of "let go" 495 00:19:56,533 --> 00:19:58,233 I can't even keep "stay" anymore 496 00:19:58,700 --> 00:19:59,866 The person at that time 497 00:20:00,033 --> 00:20:01,366 Can you still be called "a person"? 498 00:20:01,800 --> 00:20:02,466 What do you think? 499 00:20:02,933 --> 00:20:04,533 Tell me what you think in the comment section. 500 00:20:05,366 --> 00:20:08,066 Also tell me that you listened to yesterday's issue and today's issue 501 00:20:08,366 --> 00:20:09,666 Is there a button in your heart? 502 00:20:09,966 --> 00:20:10,933 Was quietly pressed 503 00:20:12,033 --> 00:20:12,733 I am Wang Lijie 504 00:20:13,033 --> 00:20:13,633 See you next time.