/lit/ - Literature

>>17787782
Thank you so much for this breakdown, but help me go further:

Imagine all my experiences laid out in a line of images like a film roll. And all yours laid out next to them.

Is the content of those experiences Mann or Atman? Because if its Mann then you seem to be saying that all the ups and downs and peculiarities and mnemonic content that we think of as constituting our Selves is not buddhist 'Self' at all, in which case many Western piggus are going to have a seriously hard time buying into the idea that Atman gets at what is ethically/metaphysically significant about human life.

On the other hand, if both of the film rolls are Atman (ie the film rolls are connected at the ends to a mutual string of universal conscious experience, Brahman) then how can we not say that human experience is full of important, high stakes interactions and the idea of escaping Samsara is flawed by the very fact that we have important and ontologically valid ethical work to do in the world on behalf of our fellow Brahman-fragments (ie humans)?

I hope this didn't come out too garbled. Thanks again for your massive effort post.