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Podcast: Buddhism for Everyone with JoAnn Fox
Episode: Episode 209 - No Self: Discovering Limitless Potential
Description: Who—or what—are you, really? If you start peeling back the layers, things get interesting fast. You have a body, but you're not just your body. You have thoughts, but if you were your thoughts, wouldn't you have disappeared the last time your mind went blank? And if you were your emotions, who were you before that bad mood showed up? Buddhism teaches that the self we cling to so tightly—this solid, unchanging "me"—is actually empty of independent existence. That doesn't mean you don't exist; it means you exist in a far more fluid, interconnected, and expansiv...