New transcript - Sameness and difference
Wed 23 Sep 2009Sameness and Difference: Buddhist and Western Understanding of Identification.
The talk starts off as follows:-
"Our topic tonight is about sameness and difference, and using this as a basis for thinking about how identification can be understood from a buddhist point of view. We will be looking at some western notions of identity and some buddhist notions, as well as the function that meditation can have in trying to loosen up some of the knots that make us have a very narrow view of ourselves."
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