Jagad Guru Chris Butler - Quotes | "False Ego" is a Deluded Condition

If you, the self, erroneously identify with the physical body—if you believe “I am the body”—then this deluded condition is called false ego.

Jagad Guru Chris Butler - Science of Identity Foundation

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Just as the cells that make up the various organs in your body are not the same cells that made up those organs a few years ago, so the atoms and molecules that make up the various cells are not the same as a few years ago.

Jagad Guru Chris Butler - Science of Identity Foundation

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The atoms and molecules that made up the cells within your body of five years ago (including the nerve and brain cells) now make up so many other things. On the other hand, not long ago the atoms and molecules in your present body were part of other objects or bodies.

Jagad Guru Chris Butler - Science of Identity Foundation

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If there is no self in the body, then there is no reason not to treat that body—human or otherwise—the same as we treat any other composition of matter. The no-self world view is the basis, the rationale, for the uninhibited exploitation of other living entities.

Jagad Guru Chris Butler - Science of Identity Foundation