Losing Ourselves Learning to Live without a Self

He's also a visiting professor of Buddhist philosophy at Harvard Dominity School. He's the author of multiple books, including his latest which is called Losing Ourselves, Learning to Live Without A Self.

Well here's what I've got in mind as I try to explain in the book I think that human beings are kind of wired for the illusion that what we really are deep down ourselves a kind of substantial entity that stands behind our mind and our body that acts on the world, that observes the world but isn't really part of the world. That's permanent continuing and that we have immediate access to it and I think that's a very, very powerful cognitive illusion to which we're all subject and I think like many illusions it's an illusion that we are well advised to shed to get rid of.

And so part of the point of the book is to explain the nature of the illusion why it's an illusion why it's a dangerous illusion and how to think about our own existence differently so that we actually can help ourselves lose the identity of the self.

The illusion is that there's some unchanging, immutable nugget of Dan behind my eyes peering fretfully out through the sockets at the world from which I am separate.

The book is losing ourselves how to be a person without a self and you can find that wherever good books are sold and so I do hope that people enjoy it and I hope to hear from people who disagree with it or who agree with it